i3-skip

i3 focus motion that treats a tabbed or stacked container as a single window rather than navigating between tabs.

AI-generated and unreviewed.

Motivation

I want two separate forms of motions. One for within tabbed ontainers, the other between visible windows. I guess this is because I don't want to futz with my choices for stacked windows while i move around. Also, it does kind of make sense to move between what is visible.

This program is a companian to i3-glue which glues together certain windows into tabbed containers.

Usage

i3-skip left      # focus the window/group to the left, skipping any tabs inside
i3-skip right
i3-skip up
i3-skip down
i3-skip toggle    # cycle focus within the current tabbed/stacked group

Bind your motion keys to the directional forms and one key to toggle, e.g. in your i3 config:

bindsym $mod+h exec i3-skip left
bindsym $mod+l exec i3-skip right
bindsym $mod+k exec i3-skip up
bindsym $mod+j exec i3-skip down
bindsym $mod+Tab exec i3-skip toggle

Flags

• --debug — print the i3 commands sent

Install (editable, via pipx)

pipx install i3-skip