Windows

Every open window with its app's icon, grouped by app; Enter switches to it.

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Windows: Open windows in a section per app; a minimised one is tagged
Open windows in a section per app; a minimised one is tagged
Windows: Focus, Close, Minimize, Hide app, and the whole app's windows at once
Focus, Close, Minimize, Hide app, and the whole app's windows at once
Windows: Window titles and app names are root results: chrome finds its three windows
Window titles and app names are root results: chrome finds its three windows
Windows: Close all of this app asks first
Close all of this app asks first
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What it does

Windows

Every open window with its app's icon, in the desktop's order (front to back on macOS, most recently focused first on Hyprland), never ranked by use. A live palette: the list runs on every show, so window titles are root results. Rows are grouped by app, a section per app in the order the front window of each gives; the app name is the subtitle and a keyword, the bundle id or window class a keyword too. A minimised window carries a minimized tag, one on another workspace or space ws 3 or other space, and the monitor when known.

Enter focuses: the panel hides, then the window comes up, restored if it was minimised. The other actions close or minimise, one window or the app's whole set, without leaving the palette, which lists again so the row is seen to go.

Keyboard

keys action
enter Focus: hides the panel, then raises the window
cmd+w Close the window; the palette stays open and lists again
cmd+m Minimize; not offered on a window that already is
cmd+h Hide app (macOS): System Events hides the window's process
cmd+shift+m Minimize all of this app; on an app with more than one window
cmd+shift+w Close all of this app, after a confirm; on an app with more than one window

A focus, close or minimise that fails keeps the panel open with a toast carrying the reason ("needs Accessibility permission", "the window is gone").

Setup

Nothing to install on macOS. The list comes from CoreGraphics merged with the Accessibility API for the parts CoreGraphics does not give (another app's window title, whether it is minimised). Without the Accessibility permission the list still works (titles only when Screen Recording allows, else the app name), focusing falls back to activating the app, and close and minimise fail with "needs Accessibility permission"; Focus shows the same one-time prompt and toast as paste when the permission is missing. Hide app goes through System Events, which asks for Automation once.

On Linux the backend is detected, not configured: Hyprland when hyprctl and an instance signature exist (the newest $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr/* when the variable is missing, so a service-started pal works); Sway on SWAYSOCK; X11 on DISPLAY plus wmctrl. Hyprland has no minimise, so pal parks the window on the special:minimized workspace and Focus brings it back; Sway minimise is move scratchpad; X11 minimise needs xdotool. With none of the three the palette reports "no Hyprland, Sway or X11 (wmctrl) session".

Settings, [extensions.windows]:

key type default what
include_minimized bool true List minimised windows too (focusing one restores it).

What it does not do

  • No ranking: the order is the desktop's, so the window you used most is not first. Type part of its title instead.
  • No moving or resizing: that is Window Management, which has Apply to… for a window picked from this list's rows.
  • Hide app is macOS only; on Linux the action is not offered.
  • No window previews: the row has the app's icon, not a thumbnail.

Platforms

macOS (CoreGraphics and the Accessibility API) and Linux (Hyprland, Sway, or X11 with wmctrl).

Palettes 1

  • Windowswindowslive

    What is open right now, front to back.

    • ↵Focus the window
    • ⌘WClose it
    • ⌘MMinimize it
    • ⌘HHide the app

Actions

  • FocusHides the panel, then raises the window, restoring it if minimised.↵
  • CloseThe palette stays open and lists again.⌘W
  • MinimizeNot offered on a window that already is.⌘M
  • Hide appmacOS: hides the window's process through System Events.⌘H
  • Minimize all of this appOn an app with more than one window.⌘⇧M
  • Close all of this appAsks first.⌘⇧W

Settings

Extension, [extensions.windows]

include_minimized
On boolean

Focusing a minimised window restores it.

Defaults shown. Change them in pal's settings window or in the config file.