Workspaces with Multiple Monitors

[Gorgeous-Goose]

I'm a little confused about how workspaces function, specifically with two monitors. Each monitor has its own set of workspaces, so there seems to be no easy way to switch with one shortcut to a workspace on the opposite monitor. It seems the only way to do this is to first switch focus over to the opposite monitor, and then press alt + [workspace number] to go to the workspace. This doesn't feel very good or efficient, especially compared to i3 on Linux where you can just directly press alt + [workspace number] and go to the correct monitor and workspace regardless where you are focused.

Is this intended design or am I not understanding how to use/setup workspaces?

[LGUG2Z]

Check out these commands:

❯ komorebic focus-named-workspace
Focus the specified workspace

Usage: komorebic.exe focus-named-workspace <WORKSPACE>

Arguments:
  <WORKSPACE>  Target workspace name

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

❯ komorebic focus-monitor-workspace
Focus the specified workspace on the target monitor

Usage: komorebic.exe focus-monitor-workspace <TARGET_MONITOR> <TARGET_WORKSPACE>

Arguments:
  <TARGET_MONITOR>    Target monitor index (zero-indexed)
  <TARGET_WORKSPACE>  Workspace index on the target monitor (zero-indexed)

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

[Gorgeous-Goose]

I tried both of these in the whkdrc but nothing changed. Maybe I'm not declaring the workspaces correctly...? Idk. It would help a lot if there was a 'workspaces' section of the documentation which had all the relevant information in one place.

[LGUG2Z]

It will help if you can share exactly which commands you are trying, your config files, and also what you experience when you run those commands in the terminal ^

[Gorgeous-Goose]

I didn't bother doing it in the terminal, as I only care about the hotkeys - so in whkd I tried reassigning the alt + [number] hotkeys to one and then the other of the two commands you showed (komorebic focused-named-workspace 1 and komorebic focus-monitor-workspace 0 0 , etc.) and then saving, but it continued to function as before, only changing the workspace on the currently focused monitor.

(The komorebic.exe commands you shared in the terminal work perfectly as expected. So I guess maybe I'm just using the wrong syntax for the hotkeys in whkd?)

[LGUG2Z]

whkd doesn't auto-reload so you'd have to reload manually to see any changes take effect. As for the syntax, if you can share the contents of the config file it would be easier to see if there is anything that looks off.

[Gorgeous-Goose]

UPDATE. So apparently the problem was that wkhd.exe wasn't closing and restarting, even with alt+o, so the hotkeys weren't being updated. Powershell apparently doesn't recognize taskkill commands (kept getting messages like '/f not recognized' or 'wkhd.exe not found'). Had to ultimate use task manager to close and restart whkd, and then it works. I don't really understand powershell too well, so IDK if that's expected behaviour or not. Anyway, issue resolved.