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My favorite part of XMonad is XMonad.Actions.Navigation2D[0], which allows you you use direction navigation via keybinding to switch between windows. A proof that the technique for this allows you to visit any window, no matter how they are arranged is given in this paper[1].

[0]- http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Actions-...

[1]- https://web.cs.dal.ca/~nzeh/xmonad/Navigation2D.pdf

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fvwm2 has this and I miss it dearly since I switched to i3 a while back. It was fantastic. I would arrange my screens in a 3x3 grid and put my most commonly used one in the center. That gave me four other screens that were only one keystroke combo away.

It's just not the same in i3. I can do meta+screen# but it's nowhere near as easy.

While only working in 1D (up/down for workspaceswitch; left/right for monitor switch), I use a similar "geometric navigation" from within i3 in place of the Meta+Number default shortcuts.

Here is how I solved this for me: https://fmos.at/2016/06/30/my-i3-dual-screen-workflow/

Why did you switch to i3? I'm an i3 user looking at other window managers.

I wanted a tiling WM.

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