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LXQt application switcher
Overview
LXQt application switcher is an application switcher, hence a tool to change the active window by cycling through the available ones, geared towards the LXQt desktop environment.
It integrates with LXQt including theming and is meant to be more configurable and featureful than e. g.
its counterpart provided by Openbox.
(For now theme Ambiance only is supported. Other themes can still be used but make LXQt application
switcher fall back to a default theme.)
Installation
LXQt component lxqt-globalkeys is the only mandatory build- and runtime dependency as it's needed itself and pulls all other needed dependencies including Qt as well.
LXQt application switcher is relying on CMake and can hence be installed by running cmake
, make
and
make install
, optionally from a dedicated build directory.
A CMake option like -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
will be needed most of the time to have the program installed
at paths commonly used these days.
In Arch Linux the tool can be installed via AUR package lxqt-appswitcher-git.
Configuration
Keyboard shortcuts
LXQt application switcher is using the shortcuts defined by lxqt-globalkeys.
These are configured in dialogue "Global Actions Manager" (binary lxqt-config-globalkeyshortcuts
) - topics
"[reverse] switch applications" in column "Description". Default settings are Alt+Tab
and Alt+Shift+Tab
to
cycle in regular and reverse order respectively.
It must be ensured that these shortcuts aren't used by the window manager. (Technically it's possible to assign
different shortcuts to LXQt application switcher and e. g. an application switcher of a window manager and hence
use the two in parallel. This will hardly ever make sense, though.)
In Openbox actions NextWindow
and/or PreviousWindow
have to be
detached from the keyboard bindings. This is best done by uncommenting or
removing the corresponding sections in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml
. If the file is missing /etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml
can be copied and used as template, the sections themselves will look like
<keybind key="A-Tab">
<action name="NextWindow">
[...]
</keybind>
and
<keybind key="A-S-Tab">
<action name="PreviousWindow">
[...]
</keybind>
For changes to take effect either start a new session or run openbox --reconfigure
.
In KWin the shortcuts can be handled from KDE's "System Settings" (binary systemsettings[5]
) under Workspace -
Window Management - Task Switcher, using Xfwm4 in dialogue "Window Manager" (binary xfwm4-settings
), both
times changes take effect at once.
Auto start
The application itself is run as so-called LXQt Module. As such it has to be enabled from dialogue
"LXQt Session Settings" (binary lxqt-config-session
).
Settings
The actual configuration can be tweaked by dialogue "Application switcher" which can be found in LXQt's main panel menu as well as in the "LXQt Configuration Center".