Inspired by XMonad.Actions.GridSelect, but written in C + GTK+2, uses nice-looking colours and has some set of helpful features.
Use arrow keys (also C-n, C-p, C-f, C-b in default mode, hjkl in vim mode) or mouse to navigate through windows.
Start typing to search for required window.
Config file is created automatically on a first program run and stored in ~/.config/xwinmosaic/config.
Usage:
xwinmosaic [OPTION...] - show X11 windows as colour mosaic
Help Options:
-h, --help Show help options
--help-all Show all help options
--help-gtk Show GTK+ Options
Application Options:
-r, --read-stdin Read items from stdin (and print selected item to stdout)
-p, --permissive Lets search entry text to be used as individual item.
-t, --format Read items from stdin in next format (comma separated):
<desktop_num>, <box_color>, <icon>, <label>, <opt_name>.
Icon can be path to png file or icon name from theme.
Any option, except <label> can be skipped
<icon> should be a path to png file or icon name from theme
Any positive value of <desktop_num> allowed.
<box_color> should be in #nnnnnn format, otherwise it will be skipped.
-V, --vim-mode Turn on vim-like navigation (hjkl, search on /)
-C, --no-colors Turn off box colorizing
-I, --no-icons Turn off showing icons
-D, --no-desktops Turn off showing desktop number
-T, --no-titles Turn off showing titles
-S, --screenshot Get screenshot and set it as a background (for WMs that do not support XShape)
-P, --at-pointer Place center of mosaic at pointer position.
-W, --box-width=<int> Width of the boxes (default: 200)
-H, --box-height=<int> Height of the boxes (default: 40)
-i, --icon-size=<int> Size of window icons (default: 16)
-f, --font="font [size]" Which font to use for displaying widgets. (default: "Sans 10")
-o, --hue-offset=<int> Set color hue offset (from 0 to 255)
-F, --color-file=<file> Pick colors from file
--display=DISPLAY X display to use
- EWMH compatible Window Manager
- GTK+2
- CMake
- Debian/Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/~soulthreads/+archive/xwinmosaic/ (might be old, better build it yourself)
- ArchLinux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59660
- Gentoo: https://github.com/funtoo/flora/tree/master/x11-apps/xwinmosaic
- openSUSE (packages for 11.4, 12.1 and Tumbleweed): http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ZaWertun:/gtk2/
- MS Windows: http://artifth.ru/~artifth/xwinmosaic.zip Unzip archive and then create a shortcut for xwinmosaic.exe, put shortcut on desktop or in start menu and set a hotkey in properties.
Other distributions/for development:
cd xwinmosaic
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. # or cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
make
./src/xwinmosaic # or sudo make install, if you trust me. :)
[colors]
# Use xprop to determine window class
WindowClass1 = #112233
WindowClass2 = #445566
# For other windows to use. You can omit that line and it will use standard colorizing scheme.
fallback = #778899; #AABBCC; #DDEEFF