Fuzzy Window Switcher For Ubuntu

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://github.com/XCMer/fuzzy-window-switcher">Fuzzy Window Switcher</a></b> is a tool inspired by Sublime Text's <i>Ctrl+P</i>, useful for those who keep a lot of windows open: it <b>allows you to switch between windows by typing a few letters that match the window title</b>.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">According to its description, Fuzzy Window Switcher has been created for Ubuntu, but it should work in other Linux distributions as well (not tested though).</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhyphenhyphen1kh7i8m9dV-Is1HX7Uz5W7rQ4Bbgi7_Nz8kdS-3zgRTyiZGDjCpvW0wXjgOIOlPmPmlYOKyt3xmlkNCwsJH1zQRWeNvoOMkm_UwaEkAht2RN4U00hHohG2moPL53gmcvNp_b_fTqg/s1600/fuzzy-window-switcher.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fuzzy Window Switcher" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhyphenhyphen1kh7i8m9dV-Is1HX7Uz5W7rQ4Bbgi7_Nz8kdS-3zgRTyiZGDjCpvW0wXjgOIOlPmPmlYOKyt3xmlkNCwsJH1zQRWeNvoOMkm_UwaEkAht2RN4U00hHohG2moPL53gmcvNp_b_fTqg/s320/fuzzy-window-switcher.png" title="Fuzzy Window Switcher" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The tool sorts open windows according to your input and focuses the window on top of the list. You can hide it by pressing the Enter key or a keyboard shortcut.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">By default, pressing F10 shows or hides the Fuzzy Window Switcher and you can change the key by editing a file (there's no settings GUI to change the keyboard shortcut yet).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fuzzy Window Switcher is a <b>work in progress</b> and there are a few things that need to be improved. In the future, the application should get a better sorting algorithm, an improved UI and tray icons.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Fuzzy Window Switcher</h2><br /><b>Arch Linux:</b> Fuzzy Window Switcher is available in <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fuzzy-window-switcher-git/">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Fuzzy Window Switcher requires GTK3, PyGi and Keybinder 3. The first two should be installed by default in Ubuntu and <b>to install Keybinder 3 in Ubuntu 12.10, 13.04 or 13.10, use the following command:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install libkeybinder-3.0-0 gir1.2-keybinder</code></pre><b>For Ubuntu 12.04, you can install Keybinder 3 from the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~kazam-team/+archive/stable-series">Kazam PPA</a></b>:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kazam-team/stable-series<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install libkeybinder-3.0-0 gir1.2-keybinder</code></pre><br /><b>To install Fuzzy Window Switcher, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>wget https://raw.github.com/XCMer/fuzzy-window-switcher/master/fuzzy-windows -O /tmp/fuzzy-windows<br />sudo install /tmp/fuzzy-windows /usr/local/bin/</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Then, start the application by pressing ALT + F2 and typing: "fuzzy-windows".</b></div><br /><b>Use "F10" to hide / show Fuzzy Window Switcher. Update: if you want to change to a different keyboard shortcut</b>, create a file called <i>.fuzzy-windows.conf</i> under <i>~/.config/</i>:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>gedit ~/.config/fuzzy-windows.conf</code></pre>and in this file, paste this:<br /><pre class="source-code"><code>[DEFAULT]<br />hotkey=<b>F10</b></code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">Change "<i><b>F10</b></i>" to the hotkey you want to use, then save the file. In the same file you can also specify the windows the application should ignore (by default it ignores the Unity Launcher, panel, etc.). For more info, see the documentation @ <a href="https://github.com/XCMer/fuzzy-window-switcher/blob/master/docs/docs.md">GitHub</a>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Next, you may want to add Fuzzy Window Switcher to your startup applications. In Unity / GNOME Shell, launch <i>Startup Applications</i>, click "Add", under name enter "Fuzzy Window Switcher" and under command enter "fuzzy-windows". </div>

Fuzzy Window Switcher For Ubuntu

Fuzzy Window Switcher is a tool inspired by Sublime Text's Ctrl+P , useful for those who keep a lot of windows open: it allows you to s...

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