staaas / sway-move-here

Helper tool to move all the workspaces to the current output in Sway window manager

sway-move-here

sway-move-here is a helper tool to move all the workspaces to the current output in Sway window manager.

In a nutshell it does the following:

1. Retrieve all the outputs (displays) and workspaces.
2. Move all the workspaces to the output that is currently focused.
3. Switch back to the workspace that was originally focused.

The project is developed on sourcehut, there is also a github mirror.

Usage

Just run sway-move-here binary after building it.

One can also bind it to a key combo in Sway config (see man 5 sway), e.g.:

bindsym --to-code $mod+Control+apostrophe exec --no-startup-id /path/to/sway-move-here

If the tool doesn't work as expected, one can increase output verbosity:

• flag -v will display swaymsg commands and their exit codes
• flag -vv will additionally print standard output of those commands

Building

The tool is written in Rust lang 2018 edition, uses Cargo as a build tool and rustup as a toolchain manager.

The tool is statically compiled using musl by default, so one'll need to install the appropriate target first:

rustup component add x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

Once that is done once, the tool can be built using Cargo:

cargo build --release

Binary target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/sway-move-here can now be copied to any location.

Testing

The tool doesn't have automated tests (yet), but it works. I swear!