Window Switching Made Simple | Part 2

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I’ve previously written about how I automate my computer workflows whenever I find a need for that, and window switching is among the commands I do most often at my computer.

Over the last month, I found that having browser windows for separate task is pretty nice (one for videocalls, one for ‘general’ one, one for AI chats, one for ‘work’ stuff).

But that was relatively hard to integrate into my current workflow:

Draft in Progress

Writing in here is haphazardous, disjointed and sketchy.

It's probably a good idea to come back later.

I want windows to match semantically (basically window names -> was hard on gnome)
Browser has current tab website title in window name, I can use that
But I can’t string-match on it: Otherwise every website that has ‘Element’ in its name (looking at you, MDN, will match, too).
So something different: Domain names are good for that, they are unique.
custom-tab-title with domain names in tab title -> therefore window title
Integrate this into shortcuts.conf

-> This is what it looks like:

Writing in here is haphazardous, disjointed and sketchy.