Add focus-window-or-monitor actions

[Damnjelly]

The following options would help me with keyboard navigation on my multi monitor setup:

focus-window-or-monitor-left
focus-window-or-monitor-right
focus-column-or-monitor-up
focus-column-or-monitor-down

functionality: When reaching the end of column/row of a workspace, move focus to the workspace that is active on the monitor in that direction

[YaLTeR]

focus-column-or-monitor-down

How does this work with workspaces? I'm guessing it doesn't switch workspace down but goes straight to the monitor down?

[Damnjelly]

yeah, it would go straight down/up to the already existing workspace on the monitor below/above

[TheAngusMcFire]

behavior is implemented in #497

[salman-farooq-sh]

When reaching the end of column/row of a workspace, move focus to the workspace that is active on the monitor in that direction

it would go straight down/up to the already existing workspace on the monitor below/above

Aren't these two different @Damnjelly?

PS: Please consider #465 (reply in thread)

[Damnjelly]

Rereading this, yeah it's different. My request was for the first line you quoted. So for action focus-column-or-monitor-down the following order of operations would apply:

IF there is a window present in the same column AND below the active window
  THEN move focus to window down
ELSE IF there is an output present below AND below the active output
  THEN move focus to monitor down

The same would ofc apply to focus-column-or-monitor-up but in the opposite direction.

The second comment quoted was more to explain that this action should not move to a workspace that is not active on any of the monitors.

[lpnh]

Bumping this to see if there's still interest in it. I would love to see this implemented, and I'm willing to help if needed. In particular, these two: focus-window-or-monitor-left, focus-window-or-monitor-right.

[YaLTeR]

Sure

[lpnh]

I'm preparing a draft :)

[salman-farooq-sh]

Duplicate: #465

[salman-farooq-sh]

Quoting YaLTeR from his comment in the duplicate issue (#465):

The actions themselves should be fine to add as they thankfully don't add too much of a maintenance burden.

@lpnh Will you work on the remaining 2 actions other than those in #497 namely focus-window-or-workspace-or-monitor-{down,up}? #497 implements focus-window-or-monitor-{down,up} I think.

As for skipping vs. not skipping the empty workspace, let's first try one of these and see if it feels right? Then if you feel like you sometimes need one and sometimes the other, we can think how to configure it (maybe just a property on the action itself).

@YaLTeR @lpnh I think having skip and no-skip both from the get-go through a property is better, no need to test. Because maybe a single user would not use both, but two different users probably will need each one separately.