Yabai: I really just want one shortcut that allows me to cycle through all open windows in a space, is this possible?

[yangnom]

I don't need to focus to other windows via north, south, east, west, I'd rather just focus to whichever windows are open in the current space so using

alt - s : yabai -m window --focus recent
only gets me the last window (doesn't work for 2+ windows) and I have to have selected the other window for it to work and

alt - s : yabai -m window --focus next
only goes to the next one window and ends when it has gone through all the windows

[dominiklohmann]

This has always worked quite well for me for switching between all visible windows including floating windows on all visible spaces sorted by their position. Requires jq to be installed.

# cycle forwards
alt - tab : yabai -m query --spaces \
  | jq -re ".[] | select(.visible == 1).index" \
  | xargs -I{} yabai -m query --windows --space {} \
  | jq -sre "add | sort_by(.display, .frame.x, .frame.y, .id) | reverse | nth(index(map(select(.focused == 1))) - 1).id" \
  | xargs -I{} yabai -m window --focus {}

# cycle backwards
shift +  alt - tab : yabai -m query --spaces \
  | jq -re ".[] | select(.visible == 1).index" \
  | xargs -I{} yabai -m query --windows --space {} \
  | jq -sre "add | sort_by(.display, .frame.x, .frame.y, .id) | nth(index(map(select(.focused == 1))) - 1).id" \
  | xargs -I{} yabai -m window --focus {}

[yangnom]

I’m sorry, but what is ‘jq’?

[dominiklohmann]

It's a a tool for processing JSON on the command line. yabai -m query ... returns JSON-formatted output, and jq makes getting a specific value from it a a breeze.

It's available on Homebrew: brew install jq.

[yangnom]

I shall give it a try when I’m next near my computer, thanks much!

[yangnom]

For posterity, this works 100% perfectly!

Thank you @dominiklohmann !