Is it possible to have a window come to my current space when called?

[joshstobbs]

Hopefully that makes some sense, aha. In short I use an app to debug code while working on it and would like to be able to "summon" it to the space that I'm on when I use a hotkey to activate it. Let's say I'm on space 6 but the debugger is on space 1, if I push the hotkey to activate the app can I instead of moving to space one have it come to space 6?

I know that this might be skhd territory as well, but it kind of lives in the middle as I see it.

[brorbw]

The manual man yabai and jq is very helpful when making custom queries and behavior. The below code summons Spotify to the current space. I can be saved as a script ~/config/yabai-scripts/summon-spotify-to-current-space.sh, make it executable and invoke it from skhd with your chosen shortcut.

readonly WINDOW_NAME="Spotify"
readonly CURRENT_SPACE=$(yabai -m query --spaces | jq '.[] | select(."has-focus" == true).index')
readonly TARGET_WINDOW=$(yabai -m query --windows | jq "map(select(.title == \"$WINDOW_NAME\"))[-1].id")
yabai -m window --focus $TARGET_WINDOW
yabai -m window --space $CURRENT_SPACE
sleep 0.1
yabai -m window --focus $TARGET_WINDOW

yabai can be quite annoying when switching spaces thus we need to add a very short delay.

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Edit to adjust to koekeishiyas additions:

readonly WINDOW_NAME="Spotify"
readonly CURRENT_SPACE=$(yabai -m query --spaces --space | jq '.index')
readonly TARGET_WINDOW=$(yabai -m query --windows | jq "map(select(.title == \"$WINDOW_NAME\"))[-1].id")
yabai -m window $TARGET_WINDOW --space $CURRENT_SPACE --focus

[koekeishiya]

You can just do yabai -m query --spaces --space to get information about the currently active space only.

You can do yabai -m window <window_id> --space $CURRENT_SPACE to move the window to a different space without focusing it first, and you can do --focus directly inline; yabai -m window <window_id> --space $CURRENT_SPACE --focus

e.g: yabai -m window 7371 --space 1 --focus