[WIP] Add hotkey support for (tiling-) window switching

[TobiasSchaffner]

Despite the existing hotkey support for window tiling in Cinnamon, an efficient mechanism for navigating between the tiled windows, apart from tabbing through the list of open windows, was missing.

This patch adds support for navigation between windows using hotkeys.

[TobiasSchaffner]

Additional patches for testing:

cinnamon:

diff --git a/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py b/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py
index d65a9628c..5406b516c 100755
--- a/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py
+++ b/files/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ KEYBINDINGS = [
     [_("Push tile right"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "push-tile-right", "win-tiling"],
     [_("Push tile up"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "push-tile-up", "win-tiling"],
     [_("Push tile down"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "push-tile-down", "win-tiling"],
+    [_("Switch to tile left"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "switch-to-tile-left", "win-tiling"],
+    [_("Switch to tile right"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "switch-to-tile-right", "win-tiling"],
+    [_("Switch to tile up"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "switch-to-tile-up", "win-tiling"],
+    [_("Switch to tile down"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "switch-to-tile-down", "win-tiling"],
     # Windows - Workspace-related
     [_("Move window to new workspace"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "move-to-workspace-new", "win-workspaces"],
     [_("Move window to left workspace"), MUFFIN_KEYBINDINGS_SCHEMA, "move-to-workspace-left", "win-workspaces"],

cinnamon-desktop:

diff --git a/schemas/org.cinnamon.desktop.keybindings.wm.gschema.xml.in b/schemas/org.cinnamon.desktop.keybindings.wm.gschema.xml.in
index ed9ca9d..37f3bbe 100644
--- a/schemas/org.cinnamon.desktop.keybindings.wm.gschema.xml.in
+++ b/schemas/org.cinnamon.desktop.keybindings.wm.gschema.xml.in
@@ -21,6 +21,22 @@
       <default><![CDATA[['<Super>Down']]]></default>
     </key>
 
+    <key type="as" name="switch-to-tile-left">
+      <default><![CDATA[['<Alt>Left']]]></default>
+    </key>
+
+    <key type="as" name="switch-to-tile-right">
+      <default><![CDATA[['<Alt>Right']]]></default>
+    </key>
+
+    <key type="as" name="switch-to-tile-up">
+      <default><![CDATA[['<Alt>Up']]]></default>
+    </key>
+
+    <key type="as" name="switch-to-tile-down">
+      <default><![CDATA[['<Alt>Down']]]></default>
+    </key>
+
     <key type="as" name="push-snap-left">
       <default>[]</default>
       <summary>obsolete</summary>

[clefebvre]

Marking this as NEXT. I like the idea but we're planning to look into workspace management in the near future and maybe redesign scale/overview. The design around integrated tiling features should go along with that.

[TobiasSchaffner]

Ping me if you need a rebase or if I can help with particular changes. 🙂