Please add searching of open windows

[Reuben Thomas]

It would be great to be able to find an open window and switch to it with gnome-do when I have many windows open.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

This is actually already implemented, in the “Window Management” plugin. Windows get added as child items of the indexed applications, and you can use the “focus” action on either the window or the application to raise windows.

For example, ‘Terminal’ <tab> ‘Focus’ will raise all terminal windows, whereas ‘Terminal’ <right arrow> will get you a list of open terminal windows, which you can select and then <tab> ‘Focus’.

Is this about what you were thinking?

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

Thanks very much. I was thinking of simply being able to select a window by
typing part of its title, as with anything else you can find with gnome-do.
(Typically this would be part of the name of a document I was editing, or a
directory being visited by a terminal window.)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

This required extra infrastructure in core, but that infrastructure is now available in the form of DynamicItemSource.