Desktop Keybind (open / jump to empty Workspace) Tutorial

[pi-hackr]

Hi, I created a solution to have a Keybind which takes you to the closest empty workspace. If there is no empty one available it opens a new one. I don't know if there is a better or native solution from hyprland but this is the best I came up with and it works and exactly fits my needs.

This is the Script (~/.config/hypr/nextempty.sh):

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# ~/.config/hypr/nextempty.sh

# Read in all Workspaces as JSON
workspaces=$(hyprctl workspaces -j)

# Collect IDs of all existing Workspaces
ids=$(echo "$workspaces" | jq -r '.[].id')

# Search for lowest positive ID, that does not exist
target=1
while echo "$ids" | grep -qx "$target"; do
    target=$((target + 1))
done

# Switch workspace
hyprctl dispatch workspace "$target"

This ist the keybind (for ~/.config/hypr/bindings.conf)

chmod +x ~/.config/hypr/nextempty.sh

If you want to use SUPER, D too you need to disable the Docker Binding

Disclaimer: ChatGPT helped me with this solution