Sway Workspace Manager

A dynamic workspace manager for sway.

This project is an interface for sway workspace operations. It ensures that after any operation, workspace numbers will correspond to their indices on the list of open workspaces. Most notably, this program allows you to create a workspace between any two existing workspaces.

This program only manages workspace numbers. "Workspace names" that follow the numbers will be left untouched.

Usage

sway-workspace-manager VERB TARGET [--daemon] [--cycle] [--extra]

Supported verbs are reorder switch move create move-to-new swap rename.

reorder will only fix the workspace numbers, and does not require a target. rename renames the current workspace to workspace_num:TARGET.

For all other verbs, TARGET must be prev next start end or a 1-indexed workspace number.

--daemon only applies to the reorder verb, and sets the program to reorder automatically on "workspace close" events.

--cycle only affects the program's behavior when the target is prev or next, and when the verb is switch move or swap.

When the target is a number, --extra will allow switch and move to create a new workspace at the end of the workspace list.

Examples

Config

~/.config/sway/config

# switch workspace
bindsym Mod4+Left  exec sway-workspace-manager switch prev --cycle
bindsym Mod4+Right exec sway-workspace-manager switch next --cycle

# create workspace
bindsym Mod4+Ctrl+Left  exec sway-workspace-manager create prev
bindsym Mod4+Ctrl+Right exec sway-workspace-manager create next

# move focused window between workspaces
bindsym Mod4+Shift+Left  exec sway-workspace-manager move prev --cycle
bindsym Mod4+Shift+Right exec sway-workspace-manager move next --cycle

# move focused window to new workspace
bindsym Mod4+Ctrl+Shift+Left  exec sway-workspace-manager move-to-new prev
bindsym Mod4+Ctrl+Shift+Right exec sway-workspace-manager move-to-new next

# swap workspace order
bindsym Mod4+Alt+Left  exec sway-workspace-manager swap prev --cycle
bindsym Mod4+Alt+Right exec sway-workspace-manager swap next --cycle


# switch to a workspace number
bindsym Mod4+1 exec sway-workspace-manager switch 1
bindsym Mod4+2 exec sway-workspace-manager switch 2
...
bindsym Mod4+9 exec sway-workspace-manager switch 9
bindsym Mod4+0 exec sway-workspace-manager switch end


# create workspace with a number
bindsym Mod4+Ctrl+1 exec sway-workspace-manager create 1

# move focused window to a workspace number
bindsym Mod4+Shift+1 exec sway-workspace-manager move 1


# rename current workspace (using dmenu-wl)
bindsym Mod4+slash exec 'out=$(dmenu-wl -po "") && sway-workspace-manager rename "$out"'

Reorder Daemon

~/.config/systemd/user/sway-workspace-manager.service

[Unit]
Description=A dynamic workspace manager for sway
PartOf=sway-session.target
After=sway-session.target

[Service]
ExecStart=sway-workspace-manager reorder --daemon

[Install]
WantedBy=sway-session.target

Change sway-session.target to graphical-session.target if you do not use systemd to manage sway.

Or just start it from sway:

~/.config/sway/config

exec sway-workspace-manager reorder --daemon