Lazy susan: Meta+Alt+Tab spins the panels around you

- ft-screens "spin next|prev|<degrees>": every unpinned screen and
  floating window turns together about a vertical axis through your
  head (0.3 s, eased), so the next panel on the right or left comes to
  straight ahead; the arrangement stays as it is. Taps during a spin
  add to it, from where the panels are headed; grabbing a panel or
  placing it (ft-layout, ft-floatd) takes it out of the spin
- when a spin settles, the panel in front gets the pointer (recenter),
  typing (as after a click), and KWin's active window: its floating
  window, or the top window on a screen (ft-floatd "front N", the KWin
  script's activate-output). KWin's outputs follow the screens'
  new places (ft-layout scale), as after a move
- the input relay: spin_next and spin_prev actions, Meta+Alt+Tab and
  Meta+Alt+Shift+Tab by default; Frametop Input Settings lists them.
  Not Meta+Tab: that's Cmd+Tab on a Mac reached through a remote
  desktop like RustDesk, and the relay would take the Mac's app
  switcher. Meta+Alt+Tab (Cmd+Option+Tab) is unused on macOS,
  Windows, and KDE

Used on the Frame (SteamOS 0.3.0 build 20260922) with one screen and
three or four floating windows, through RustDesk to a Mac.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Patrick McDavidandClaude Opus 5.5 committed 2026-10-03 10:17:22 -06:00
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@@ -378,6 +378,17 @@ function run(c) {
case "activate":
if (w) workspace.activeWindow = w;
break;
case "activate-output": { // the top window on that output (a spin brought it to the front)
const order = workspace.stackingOrder;
for (let i = order.length - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
const o = order[i];
if (o.deleted || o.minimized || o.hidden || !o.managed || !o.output) continue;
if (o.output.name !== c.output || !o.normalWindow || o.popupWindow) continue;
workspace.activeWindow = o;
break;
}
break;
}
case "minimize":
if (w) w.minimized = c.on;
break;
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@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ command-line side). Replies go to the sender:
("float pointer" is the float key: the window under the pointer, else the active one,
floated or docked; the input relay sends it for float_toggle, and "dock all" for dock_all)
dock N | close N | resize N W H | scale N STEPS (ft-screens, N = its screen)
front N (ft-screens: a spin brought panel N to the front: make its window, or the top one
on a screen, KWin's active window)
Spare outputs are WL-<screens> .. WL-<screens + slots - 1>. A floating window's output is its
frame plus a margin on each side (FLOAT_MARGIN pixels), so menus have room; the panel shows
@@ -1043,6 +1045,13 @@ class Daemon:
for f in list(self.floats.values()):
self.dock(f)
return "ok"
if cmd == "front" and len(rest) == 1 and rest[0].isdigit():
f = self.by_panel(int(rest[0]))
if f:
self.command(cmd="activate", id=f.id)
else: # a screen: its output is WL-<N - 1>
self.command(cmd="activate-output", output=f"WL-{int(rest[0]) - 1}")
return "ok"
if cmd in ("dock", "close", "resize", "scale") and rest and rest[0].isdigit():
f = self.by_panel(int(rest[0]))
if not f: