Exposes a D-Bus interface for listing and controlling windows, so scripts and applications can do on Wayland what wmctrl does on X11. List open windows with their ID, title, WM class, PID, workspace, monitor and geometry. Activate or focus a window by ID, title, WM class or PID. Move, resize, minimize, maximize, fullscreen, set above, set sticky or close a window. Tile the focused window to a 4x2 grid with Super+Ctrl and a numpad key. Every shortcut is a GSettings key that you can rebind or unbind. Place new windows automatically with rules in ~/.config/gnome-window-control/rules.json. The extension creates that directory, reads the file and never writes it. Without the file no window is placed. The extension has no preferences window and adds nothing to the panel. It registers the D-Bus object /org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/WindowControl on the org.gnome.Shell bus name. When you disable the extension, the D-Bus object, the shortcuts and the automatic placement stop; rules.json stays. IMPORTANT: the interface has no access control. Any application in your session can call it to read window titles and to control your windows. This is necessary for the intended use from shell scripts. Do not enable the extension if that is not acceptable to you. A command-line client, wctl, is available from the project page. It is not part of this extension and is not installed with it.

Extension Homepage

https://github.com/carlo9890/gnome-window-control

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