triggering "switcher" with "super" would be cool. This would imply to have vanilla "activities overview" with something else , eg "super+a".

seems there is a mutter setting : /apps/mutter/general/overlay_key

i guess switcher extension could help the user going this way
Also one advantage is that the day you deactivate switcher (eg it is temporarily broken =) , super comes back to standard.

Is it possible to make the theme transparent perhaps by setting something in the files or could you kindly add this option if possible?

Just a convenient feature if only a few similar windows remain after typing a few letters..

Still a very useful extension, help keeping the hand on the keyboard a lot. :)

it would be nice if the application search also used the original (untranslated) application name. the overview search bar seems to do this already. additionally, also use the Exec=... value. all of these are in the .desktop files.

Hi, switcher not working on gnome 3.30 but app launcher is working and I'm using Arch Linux. Thanks

I think need to change this part on switcher.js:

let currentWorkspace = global.screen.get_active_workspace_index();

to

let workspaceManager = global.workspace_manager;
let currentWorkspace = workspaceManager.get_active_workspace();

Would you consider adding some sort of weighted heuristic for sorting the search results?

For example, when I launch an application from my terminal, the terminal title gets updated to contain the application name, so it shows up in my filtered results when I search for the application. I'd really like the application itself to rank higher than the terminal it was launched from. An easy way to get that would be to rank results higher if the match was at the beginning of the candidate string.

I would like to bind the Switcher to Super+Tab but am unable to. I've also noticed I cannot bind it to Alt+Tab either.

I've tried unbinding these in the Gnome settings keyboard shortcuts and am still unable to bind them to the Switcher.

Is it possible to have position of windows fixed within the switcher. Currently both ordering criteria ("Most relevant" and "last focused") move the window position up the switcher as you select them. This is less efficient for me since I tend to remember the position of windows mentally. A new option "Fixed" can be added in ordering criteria which will not alter window positions at all. Any new opened window can be added to the bottom of the switcher list. Thanks.

Please add support for GNOME 3.28

After each reboot, a notification, which shows a hint about the extension's usage, is shown. I don't want this notification to be shown again. But even if I click the notification's "do not show again" button, another hint is shown after the next reboot. I've not found an option to permanently disable the notifications in the extension's settings either. I would really appreciate such an option to be available. Thank you!

From issue #2. I have two screens horizontally placed, and the order is: Main, Secondary. They're exactly the same, resolution 1920x1200. I'm using Gnome 3.14 on Debian Jessie.

The switcher opens in the main screen, then if I click anywhere on the secondary screen nothing happens. Secondary screen seems frozen and main screen stays with the switcher on.

currently, ctrl-tab and ctrl-space switch between apps/window selection.

it would be great if pressing the global shortcut twice would toggle between the two as well. right now this doesn't do anything.

is it possible to launch an app from the box?
if its not in the planning, its fine :)

Heyo! Thanks for writing this plugin. I'm just moving over from MacOS to Gnome 3 and was missing Alfred a bit; switcher is a pretty good stopgap!

I'm getting a bit of notification spam from switcher tips. I don't know how to turn these off (I did not see a setting to disable tips) and instead I have to disable each one as it shows up. Also, each one shows up in my notifications list in triplicate.

As I'm already working full time on Gnome 3 and have calendar events and such, these extra notifications are quite noisy. Can these be turned off somehow?

I am using switcher installed from https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/973/switcher/ on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.2

Thanks!

Just created additional theme for Manjaro Gnome Ediotion.
You can find it here.
Sorry if i posted it non GitHub way - i'm more graphic designer than developer.
I can provide Polish translation too.
Feel free to catch me on [email protected]

I'm running this extension in Debian Jessie, Gnome 3.14, and I don't see the input box background black, it's totally transparent and I just can barely see what I'm typing.

I like the extension, I hate the way Alt-Tab works but haven't found a good alternative until maybe now. Congratulations.

when i am looking for a window, but there is no match, i would like to see matching apps instead, since the next step is usually launching that app.

I tend to have a large list of windows open and generally I work between windows on a single workspace at a time as I'm jumping between code and terminals on one workspace and browsers on another. It's really frustrating when I accidentally select a browser while I'm on my workspace with my code and it switches to a different workspace. It would be nice to have an option to only show and switch between windows on the active workspace.

Hello. Your extension looks great!
I was searching for something like rofi but with wayland support and came across your extension. Unfortunatelly, it only support app launching as for now. Could you also add script launching feature? Simply find and suggest scripts from certain directories, much as rofi does.
Thanks!

Is this working in Ubuntu-17.10?

Stops loading the translation of Gnome-Shell that instead of showing up in Italian if you turn the extension comes up with various parts in English!!

Removed extension

my eyes would be very happy if the popup quickly fades in and out instead of suddenly obscuring a big part of my screen.

this extension is incredibly useful, & you might maybe optimize a bit : once super+w is hit, "switcher" could automatically assign for each window one letter : first window a, second window b, third window c.

User just hit the relevant letter, so unless one has more than 26 windows it's always a one letter hit to open the right window.

This is an enhancement request. Please state it it if not interested, thanks !!

I work with two identical monitors. The left is the primary one (where I have different workspaces) and the right is the secondary one.

Right now, when I invoke Switcher the popup is always on the primary monitor. It would be much better for me if it popped up on the monitor containing the currently focused window because that's where I am looking at.

Other than that, Switcher is really, really nice. Keep up the good work!

I recently upgraded the extension to version 14. I noticed that once it fails to find matching window, it switches to application launcher. Can this behavior is disabled?

if the sorting of applications doesn't change within one session (if I understand bug #5 properly, the apps are sorted by the time they were opened so for sure the sorting wouldn't change in a session), what could be done is the following: when you display the list of apps, you could add a number of each app, for instance in a new column on the right.
Currently the columns are the icon then the window title. So we would add a new column, with a number.
Now we probably want to allow the users to type in digits to filter windows, so maybe then we use the F keys.. So let's say you want to switch with the app with number "6". You would just press "F6" and it would do the switching. Something like that.
And if the sorting is stable, you can remember for this session, this window is win-w f6. That one is win-w f4. That would be much faster than typing in the window title until the filtering is reduced to one window.
I'm wondering if you'd be considering implementing it or worst-case (for me ;-) ) accepting a PR to that effect?

Most/all similar extensions (see the Howdoi extension) blackout all screens when showing the main dialog. I'm working with two monitors and when the window selector is shown, it's not obvious that the screens are locked. It would be a big visual improvement that all screens were obscured when the dialog is shown.

Most applications on 4k screens are way to small; This however takes up 1/5 the screen (and with no easy Super + w again) to close is very intrusive (although otherwise a great feature)

I'm creating a custom theme for the switcher (available here) and can't seem to get rid of the bottom "border" from the text entry box. How can I do this?

Saw this point on the TODO but didn't quite get the combinations you want. However, the solution should be this:

On addShortcut() you have the variable "mods", which is enum GdkModifierType. So to detect the combos you can try making bitwise conditions with GDK_CONTROL_MASK, GDK_SHIFT_MASK, etc..

would it be possible to integrate this into activities?

it would be better to use key-press-event instead of key-release-event.

by doing so, keys repeat while holding them down. this means it becomes to possible to hold down ctrl-n or ctrl-p (or arrow keys) to navigate the list.

also, the whole interaction becomes much snappier. with key-release-event there's a clearly perceptible delay that just does not feel right. it's hard to explain, try it! :)

note that there is one feature that somehow stops working when switching to key-press-event: numeric shortcut keys no longer result in selection; instead the numbers appear in the text entry.

Directly clicking on a window in the list appears to just close the list. It should switch to the clicked window instead. This is both the intuitively expected behavior and more efficient than keyboard navigation eg. after narrowing down a long list of windows with a search.

This problem aside, the extension is awesome. Thanks.

There are very useful shortcuts available in the extensions but they are not documented.

• C-j for enter,
• C-m for switching between mode
• C-h for backspace
• C-p and C-n for up and down

These shortcuts are very useful and should be mentioned in the doc.

If we agree I would also like to create a PR to map C-j and C-k to up and down, and C-g to enter.

There are some new features with translatable strings. Could I bother you for German translations @jonnius?

@jonnius, could I bother you again for some translations? There are a number of new features with missing translations.

Currently neither option in Ordering Criteria change the first 10 results.

Would be great if the initial list consisted of the last opened applications.

edit: i couldn't find anything recent that used a list of recent apps. But i did find an alternative: show the list of favorite apps when the launcher opens

const AppFavorites = imports.ui.appFavorites;
[...]
AppFavorites.getAppFavorites().getFavorites()...

Happens with the Ubuntu app 'Software & Updates', I'm sure this affects any app that has '&' in the title.

I was able to fix by removing the occurrences of .replace(/&/g, '&'); in util.js, modes/launcher.js and modes/switcher.js.

Reduce the vertical menu length size of the extension options, on Monitor 1366x768 (16:9) It is impossible to read the last options!!!

When using on desktop, the second Return key, in the num pad, doesnt select the app, like the main Return key does

I've removed this shortcut from Gnome default input source switching.

But switcher doesn't seem to recognize it. Your thoughts?

Is it possible to make the Switcher change with the theme, so it will match the look of the theme?

Could be nice if it would be possible to close a window.
Something like clicking delete key to close.

Amazing extension. thanks

When type with Chinese input method(ibus-rime-1.3.0), press Enter just go to the first window directly. But I want letters should be shown in Switcher.

A workaround: press Shift or switch to English input method before typing any character.

Is it possible that the switcher will have a "quick peak" option?
By that I mean that when you scroll the open apps list in the switcher, the selected app will be shown in the background.
If I press "Return" the app is going to the foreground, and if not i will be returned to my currently open app

This idea came to me because I use Sublime Text, and there is a great features in the editor, where you can peak a file by pressing Ctrl+P and iterating though the list.

I imagine this is very hard and maybe impossible to accomplish on a desktop environment, yet it could be a very cool and productive for work environments - where you sometimes iterate through a lot of open programs

Thank you in advance

After switcher have been launched it is not possible to toggle between different keyboard layouts. Would be great to fix it.

Change_layout _shortcut I use: super+space

First of all this is a great extension.

Would it be possible to expand the search to opened tabs in browsers such as Chromium and Firefox?
The background is, if you have multiple windows with lots of tabs each, it would be great to just type the tab title and the corresponding window would be focused and the tab selected.

I think it will need a browser extension, so WebExtensions should be a good starting point to search and implement a little helper to get all opened tabs and select them programmatically.

I'm running on glib-2.56.1.

EDIT removing setTimeout() function null parameter seems to eliminates the warning message with no side effects.

This is a suggestion for enhancement.

While the text in the input box is pretty small, the window titles are really big on my screen. I think I'd like it better if the title texts a little smaller. They would fit better too, some titles are long and I like having the title shown there.

Also, I normally use the icons to quickly identify the window I want to switch to, and just in case there's more than one I will look for the title. I'd like that the icons were a bit bigger and grouping the windows by app would make it easier for me to visually find what I want.

Best regards.