I wrote a script which swaps the two foreground workspaces between monitors

[XavierChanth]

Edit (March 16, 2025):

Working on a version which uses summon-workspace to be a lot less janky (no extra focuses required).

I'm having issues with getting summon-workspace to work though... it seems it sometimes silently fails... and seems to be monitor dependent.

permalink to this version:

https://github.com/XavierChanth/dotfiles/blob/988c29dbf3d6a9e4ffc602fd568b0e5ebdb15f43/dotfiles/dot-local/bin/aerospace-util.d/swap-workspace-monitors

Original post:

It is a little lengthy, so I've pasted the permalink:

https://github.com/XavierChanth/dotfiles/blob/ab35b4907db15daf55134d4d15ad7402f4f87fec/dotfiles/dot-local/bin/aerospace-util.d/swap-workspace-monitors

The usage is path/to/script [--wrap-around] (next|prev)

up|down|right|left won't work as it depends on aerospace move-workspace-to-monitor which doesn't support that.

It is a little bit slow, as it has to perform a few aerospace operations... what I have now is the bare minimum aerospace commands required.

I find myself browsing something on my secondary display and I just quickly want to move it to the main monitor until I find the thing I want to reference, then I swap back.

It also handles the case where a workspace is pinned to a monitor and can't be moved. It will restore the original state in that scenario.

[mattcoleanderson]

I love you script. It's functionality I've been looking for. I do however make extensive use of the workspace-to-monitor-force-assignment command, which this doesn't work with. I may just have to stop using it.

[XavierChanth]

Thanks!

I've designed the script to restore everything to the initial state if a workspace can't be moved. You could end up with some weird states based on which workspace is the pinned one.

Also I believe there are new selectors to move workspaces in the latest version, this was written before those were added, so there may be some enhancements that can be made.

[awwaiid]

This may be related to the open PR #1349 which adds --when-visible swap option to summon-workspace. I have been using a build with this change for the last 2 months and love it.