[noisy_boy]

I don't use niri but I worked around this problem (feature?) by creating a bash script that by default checks if a terminal is already open and if so, brings it into focus. Then I attach it to my default shortcut to open terminal and then create one more shortcut that opens a new terminal every time. So now, depending on which shortcut is pressed, I can either keep reusing the existing terminal or open a new one. I'm sure we can have a script that can do more fancy logic like allowing new terminals upto a given number and after that just bring the latest one into focus. Plenty of possibilities.

[evgpbfhnr]

I have a script that allows searching for windows based on title; so e.g. if I know I had a shell open in directory X I could search for that and jump to it... But in practice I quickly have 5+ shells in a directory once I start working on something and at this point my script doesn't let me differentiate between these easily enough to be useful.

Hmm, perhaps that could be made more interactive and allow cycling through these without closing the search overlay... I'll give that a try! :)