Overview

See every workspace and its windows at once, laid out as they are tiled. Click a window to go to it, click a workspace to switch to it, and drag a window onto another workspace to move it there.

Plugin

Field	Value
ID	omerfuyar/overview
Entries	Bar widget: widget; panels: panel, next to the bar, and center, in the middle of the screen; service: service

Requirements

Command	Needed	What for
hyprctl	Required	Reads the workspaces and windows, and focuses and moves them. Overview works on Hyprland.
grim	Required	Takes a small picture of each window. Without it, windows show as their app's icon and title.

Usage

Add the Overview widget to the bar and click it.

• Each workspace in use shows its tiled windows in their places, as pictures of their content. Floating windows are small tiles under them. Workspaces sit three to a row, and the overview is only as tall as the rows in use.
• The active workspace and the focused window have an accent border.
• Click a window to focus it, or a workspace's title to switch to it. The overview closes.
• Drag a window onto another workspace to move it there without leaving the overview.
• Escape or a click outside closes the overview.

To open it with a key, set Key binding in its settings, such as SUPER + Tab. The binding is added to Hyprland while Noctalia runs, not written to your config. A key that is already bound is left alone, and a notification says so: free it in your Hyprland config first, or pick another.

The key binding opens the overview in the middle of the screen. To bind it yourself, or to open it from a script:

noctalia msg panel-toggle omerfuyar/overview:center
noctalia msg panel-toggle omerfuyar/overview:panel

Settings

Setting	Type	Default	Description
keybind	string	""	A key that opens Overview, such as SUPER + Tab. Empty adds no key binding.
previews	bool	true	Advanced. A small picture of each window, taken with grim. Off, windows show their app's icon and title.

Notes

• Pictures are taken when the overview opens and when windows move, so they show each window as it was then. While the overview is open, it follows workspaces and windows as they change. Pictures are kept in the plugin's data folder.
• Works with both Hyprland config formats, Lua and the older one.