Cassia Window List

by klangman

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A window list/panel launchers based on CobiWindowList with some additional features

README

This is a Cinnamon window list and panel launcher applet based on CobiWindowList with a number of additional features designed to give you more control over how your window-list operates.

The design goals are to:

Allow you to declutter your window list when running many windows without having to do without button labels
Keyboard hot-keys to switch to specific windows so you don't have to reach for the mouse so often
Allow you to make full use of your mouse buttons to interact with the window list
A panel launcher that will activate existing windows rather then unconditionally launching new ones

Requirements

This applet requires at least Cinnamon 4.0

Installation

Right click on the cinnamon panel that you wish to add the CassiaWindowList to and click "Applets"
Click on the "Download" tab and select "Cassia Window List" and then click the install button on the right
Click on the "Manage Tab"
You most likely will want to disable the existing window-list applet you are using
Select the "Cassia Window List" entry and then click the "+" button at the bottom of the Applet window
The CassiaWindowList Basic Setup Wizard window will appear, follow the instructions to configure to your liking
Right click on the cinnamon panel and use "Panel edit mode" to enable moving the window-list within the panel
More configuration options: Right-click on any windowlist button, "Applet Preferences" -> "Configure..."

Features

In addition to the features of the CobiWindowList...

Hotkeys: Assign hotkeys to windows and applications so you can switch-to/minimize/start application windows using the keyboard
Application pooling: Keeps all window list buttons from the same application together side by side
On demand application grouping: Allows for Group/Ungroup application windows on the fly
Label pooling: Show only one label when adjacent windows are for the same application
Automatic grouping/ungrouping: Group/ungroup windows for an application based on available space in the window list
Zoomable thumbnail windows: Thumbnail windows can be zoomed in or out using the mouse scroll wheel
Configurable mouse button actions for the middle, forward and back mouse buttons
Configurable Ctrl/Shift + mouse button actions for all 5 mouse buttons
One character unicode indicators characters to indicate group window count, minimized status and pinned status
Total control over which window-list buttons have labels, and what the label contents are
Automatic configuration backup so you can restore your configuration after adding the applet to a panel again

Feedback

You can leave a comment here on cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com or you can create an issue on my CassiaWindowList devlopment GitHub repository:

https://github.com/klangman/CassiaWindowList

This is where I develop new features or test out any new ideas I have before pushing to cinnamon-spices.

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23 Comments

DjinnDjab-1 week ago

sadly this doesnt seem to play with will multiple monitors (i have 4). i cant seem to make it only show the buttons for only the windows on the corresponding monitor. i have tried all of the options

Kevin Langman-5 days ago

I didn't have to find an old monitor after all, I just needed to enable my laptop screen. Once I enabled the "Only show windows on the same monitor" option the window-list buttons for windows that I moved between monitors appear and disappear depend on which monitor the window is moved to. So the feature seems to be working as intended for me anyhow. Please verify that you have the "Only show windows on the same monitor" option enabled. If you still have the problem then maybe the issue only occurs under some specific configuration of the applet. Maybe I could take a look at your json config file and see if I can duplicate your setup??

Kevin Langman-6 days ago

I assume you have enabled the "Only show windows on the same monitor" option on the General tab in the configuration dialog? I don't use that option much myself, so I will have to hook-up a 2nd monitor and give it a test. I use two monitors at the office but I am working from home this week so it might take a day or two to dig out my old monitor for testing. I'll let you know if I can recreate your issue.

fr4g3-4 weeks ago

Great Work Man, This applet is exactly what i was looking for.

Kevin Langman-4 weeks ago

I am glad you like the applet.

Nay-3 months ago

Amazing work man. Can you please implement the Super+<number> shortcut to switch/open apps? Maybe allow it to be set automatically on the "Description" field when setting the shortcuts. At the moment this functionality has to be manually set for each app in each workspace.

Kevin Langman-1 month ago

I just implemented a feature that might be more like what you are asking for. With this update you can add an hotkey for <Super>+1 and set the description to "All Buttons" which will cause <Super>+1 through <Super>+9 to be mapped to the first 9 windows on the window-list. As the description implies, this "All Window" hotkey is not limited to window for a single application. Also, you don't have to use the <Super> key, any combination of the modifier keys will work as long as you set the key sequence to be your desired modifier(s) with the "1" key. In addition you can use the <modifier(s)>+` key to show hint bubbles over all the window-list buttons.

Kevin Langman-3 months ago

The changes have been pushed to my github repo, I'll push to cinnamon spices next week after some additional testing.

Kevin Langman-3 months ago

In my below suggestion, I meant to say that the hotkey+1-9 would switch to *application* window 1-9 as ordered on the WindowList.. Hope that's more clear regarding my proposing here.

Kevin Langman-3 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I had briefly considered how to implement such a feature before. Here is my idea now after thinking a bit more about it... If a hotkey sequence ends with "1" (i.e. Alt+1 or Super+1) and the "Description" can be matched with an application (i.e. App name, or desktop file name) then <Modifier_Key(s)>1-9 will switch to window 1-9 as ordered on the WindowList. Does that satisfy your feature request or did I misunderstand your meaning? "for each app in each workspace" -- The configuration of an applet is common across workspaces because applet instances persists across workspaces, but you do have to add new applet instances to different monitors which will not share a configuration. Is that what you were referring to?

alberbrando-3 months ago

Wooow...amazing how customizable is this applet.And the size of thumbnails is incredible.The best one.Keep on this way.Congrats.

Kevin Langman-3 months ago

I am glad you like it.

m-musikhin-5 months ago

Amazing! Thank you! Please return showing only one thumbnail above the cursor instead of all thumbnails in the pool.

Kevin Langman-5 months ago

I can add an option for that. Personally I find it handy to see all the application thumbnails for a pool but I can see how some might not like that.

m-musikhin-4 months ago

It would be great! Thank you

Kevin Langman-4 months ago

Already pushed the change to my github repository (along with a bunch of other fixes and features). I'll push all the changes to cinnamon-spices in a few days after running it for several workdays and testing in some different Mint version VMs.

m-musikhin-4 months ago

Thanks a lot. I usually have about 20 windows with chrome open, each with 20 tabs :). This setting helped me a lot. Another note, when you start chrome or other applications, regardless of the settings, the windows in the pool are added to the head. However, switching to launcher mode and back to the pool restores the correct window sequence.

Kevin Langman-4 months ago

Glad you like the applet. Adding new windows the the left of the pool was a decision I made to avoid odd label behaviour. If it was added to the right then the trailing button would have its label removed and the new window would have the label for the pool. This would result in and animated label removal and, at the same time, an animated label addition for the new button (assuming the default "one label for a pool configuration). I decided (with some reluctance) to add new pool windows to the left as a rule. Another option I had considered was to detach the label from the right most pool button for "one label" setting. This would leave a number of interesting other decisions like if the label should be set active (be underlined in Mint-Z/Y theme) and what should happen when you click the label. Another option was to add a new button to the left of the labelled button and swap the attached window for the new & labelled buttons, but I thought this might be confusing for users. I am open to other suggestions, but I thought adding to the left of pools was the least problematic solution. As for why changing the mode reorders the pool. When you change back to pooled mode all the windows are removed from window-list and re-added so that will change the order.

m-musikhin-4 months ago

it seems logical to me that a new window appears on the right in the pool, then the same sequence of windows is preserved when restoring chrome, vs code, etc. I saw similar behavior in KDE for me, window order is more important than animation and icon highlighting now I restore the order at startup and transfer the icon to the tail manually

Kevin Langman-4 months ago

OK.. I'll consider going back to adding new pooled app windows to the right of the pool.

m-musikhin-4 months ago

Can be in the form of an option like "add new window buttons ahead of trailing pinned buttons" Thank you! Your window list is the best!

Kevin Langman-4 months ago

I pushed the changes to my github repository. I'll push to cinnamon-spices after some testing. I fixed the animation a bit so it's less jarring when new pooled buttons are added to the right, so I decided against adding a new option and just have it hard-coded to add new pooled buttons to the right. If I get people telling me they liked it as it was before then I will add an option I suppose.

m-musikhin-4 months ago

Thanks a lot!!! Very comfortably!