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by nickjj 55 days ago
No problem.

niri's alt+tab also has a filter where if you hold alt and then press "w", it will only show you things on your active workspace. There's a little label that pops up showing this. You can also press "o" to filter it for only 1 monitor (output) too.

The above might help with those lapses.

In my case I haven't experienced this because I'm usually after the end game destination which is focusing the app so fuzzy finding it is the quickest path to that. If it's 8 windows to the right or 3 to the left is all the same to me.

With that said, I do sometimes have sessions where I have 3-4 things open side by side and I quickly cycle between them by going left and right. In those cases I don't have memory lapses because there's only a few windows open and I'm doing something specific. When this task is done I usually close those windows or no longer need to remember their relative position to windows in view.

I bet you could create a cool looking horizontal mini map to show a strip of things open on a workspace, this way you don't need to open up other things (overview, alt-tab, window finder, etc.) to see where things are.