Is a way to have a keyboard shortcut toggle between two particular workspaces?

[sryza]

I'd like to have a keyboard shortcut that:

• If currently in workspace 2, goes to workspace 3
• If currently in workspace 3, goes to workspace 2
• If currently in neither workspace, goes to the most recently visited one of workspace 2 and 3

Is there a way to set this up? I'd happy with a complex solution that involves calling into other scripts or whatnot.

Any guidance deeply appreciated!

[nikitabobko]

The closest I can come up with is:

alt-tab = 'exec-and-forget echo -e "2\n3" | aerospace workspace --wrap-around next'

If we implement #278 then it could be even simplified to (no external process is used):

alt-tab = 'echo 2 3 | workspace --wrap-around next'

but my solution doesn't satisfy this: "goes to the most recently visited one of workspace 2 and 3". It's not currently possible.

AeroSpace doesn't keep the history of focused workspaces, but it makes sense to implement it at least for the sake of improving focus-back-and-forth command. Once it's implemented and AeroSpace provides a command to query workspaces history, what you want will become possible.

[sryza]

Thanks for your quick help on this @nikitabobko ! Ended up with something a little different inspired by your answer. I was able to get the "goes to the most recently visited one of workspace 2 and 3" with this somewhat more complex set of invocations:

alt-shift-k = 'exec-and-forget aerospace workspace $(sh ~/devtools/select-dev-workspace.sh)'

select-dev-workspace.sh:

#!/bin/bash

# File to store the last result
STATE_FILE="/tmp/last_result.txt"

# Run the command and capture the result
RESULT=$(aerospace list-workspaces --focused)

# Check the result and determine the output
if [[ "$RESULT" -eq 2 ]]; then
    echo 3 > "$STATE_FILE"
    echo 3
elif [[ "$RESULT" -eq 3 ]]; then
    echo 2 > "$STATE_FILE"
    echo 2
else
    # If state file exists, return the last result; otherwise, return the current result
    if [[ -f "$STATE_FILE" ]]; then
        LAST_RESULT=$(<"$STATE_FILE")
        echo "$LAST_RESULT"
    else
        echo "$RESULT" > "$STATE_FILE"
        echo "$RESULT"
    fi
fi