DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5 2c472879ed Spotwatch: Meta+Space search for apps and remote displays ...

A Spotlight-like search pill (docs/spotwatch.md). Meta+Space (the input
relay's new spotwatch action, bindable to mouse and controller buttons
too) opens a faux-glass pill straight ahead of the head. Typing finds
apps and remote displays ({host} - {display}). Enter brings a running
app's most recent window to the front with the lazy susan, launches an
app that isn't running as a floating window, or connects and spins to a
remote display. Shift+Enter or a right click opens the item's menu: the
app's desktop actions, Open new window, Open docked on this screen, and
its windows; a display's Go to and Disconnect.

- spotwatch/ft-spotwatch (Python, in the Plasma session's autostart):
  the index, ranking (spotsearch.py), keys via libxkbcommon, usage.
- spotwatch/ft-spotpanel.cpp (SteamVR overlay, built by
  screens/build.sh): the pill, drawn on the CPU; --render for a look
  without a headset.
- ft-screens: "spin to N", "front N", and "spotwatch on|off", which
  routes every key to the search while it's open (a lease, renewed
  every second) and dismisses it on a click elsewhere or a pause.
- ft-floatd: "spotlist", "activate ID", and launch action=/screen=;
  the KWin script tracks when each window was last active.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-10-10 12:08:59 -06:00

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Spotwatch: Meta+Space search for apps and remote displays

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