Already some time ago i hacked together this script for windows/workspace-switching in my current hyprland setup. I have bound this to the $mainMod + h/l . Why? I have one quite small laptop with a 12“ display and when working on it i felt like i wanted to have almost every window being as large as possible. So i ended up putting every new window on a seperate workspace (a bit like scrolling window-managers like niri would do). With this script, in situations where there is no more window to the right on my current ws, a new ws is created. If there are still windows to the right of the currently focused windows the focus is switched as usual. This makes switching to new workspaces much easier.

Maybe someone else can find this useful. Of course i searched for something similar, but i couldn’t find anything. So, here it is:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# This is my switch-focus-or-create-ws-script. If there is no more window left
# or right of the current one will switch to the next workspace. So far, at
# least, when moving to the right, this leads to creation of new workspaces.

out="$(hyprctl dispatch movefocus $1)"
winno_on_cur_ws="$(hyprctl workspaces -j | \
	jq '.[] | select(.id == '$(hyprctl activeworkspace -j | jq '.id')')' | \
	jq '.windows')"

# `hyprctl dispatch movefocus r` prints "Nothing to focus to in direction r"
# when rightmost window is already reached. But we only want to switch to next
# ws if we have reached that rightmost win => `grep Nothing` must be empty. When
# reaching any fullscreened ws while cycling this leads to being "trapped"
# there, as trying to switch will only loop through all windows on that ws. This
# is desired behavior in my case.

if [ -z "$(echo $out | grep "Nothing")" ] && [ $winno_on_cur_ws -ne 0 ]; then
	exit
elif [ "$1" == "l" ]; then
	hyprctl dispatch workspace -1
elif [ "$1" == "r" ]; then
	hyprctl dispatch workspace +1
fi

copy the script to ~/.config/hypr/scripts/switch_win_ws.sh & add the following binding to your hyprland.conf:

bind = $mainMod, h, exec, ~/.config/hypr/scripts/switch_win_ws.sh l
bind = $mainMod, l, exec, ~/.config/hypr/scripts/switch_win_ws.sh r