Hard to keep track of workspace index 🥲

[xidsyed]

TL;DR:

If you have program A open on workspace X, and program B open on workspace Y, currently there's no way to track which workspace the programs are at without cycling through all workspaces manually and discovering the open programs.

An optional semi-transparent display popup that gets shown:

1. Every time workspaces are switched
2. Assigned hotkey is pressed

Will make the tiling and window-managing experience much more powerful! 💪

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Story:

With several windows, it's easy to lose track of which workspace what's on. 😓

"Let's say I am currently on a workspace with a Chrome window open, and I want to pull up Telegram beside it. I had opened Telegram on workspace 3, but I've forgotten that by now."

If I want to pull up Telegram, I can:

1. Start Key > Type 'Telegram' > Press Enter
2. (Telegram is pinned to my taskbar at index 3, Windows allows me to use 🙂 Win + 3

Now I am at Telegram! 🚀

But now, how do I find Chrome? 🤔 I could Alt-Tab to it, but that wouldn't tell me which workspace it's on. I could Alt-Tab back to Telegram, but I still don't know what workspace it's at.

The only option left is to cycle through all my 7 workspaces, make note of the workspace index both programs are at, then focus on either window and move to the other window's workspace. 😫

A simple popup every time a hotkey is pressed or workspaces get switched would not only constantly help me keep track of where everything is with very little cognitive overhead but also allow me to group things together as I go on opening and tiling applications. This enhances my speed multiple folds! 🚀

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[CtByte]

It could also be a good idea to add a tooltip on the workspace widget of the upcoming Komorebi bar, that would list the window titles on a workspace. This way you could easily see which windows you have on a workspace just by hover over the buttons on the bar.

[xidsyed]

I saw it in @LGUG2Z youtube stream an videos, it's already a part of the komorebi-bar 🍻.

However I think making it a komorebi-bar only feature would not be very wise, since komorebi-bar should have concerns of its own from komorebi (the window tiling manager).

Having the ability to tell which workspace you're is a necessary feature of a windows tiling manager. a simple functional way to display the current workspace index / name would suffice 😊

[CtByte]

Yes, I think that a floating window, like when you change the volume, would be a great part of Komorebi for sure.