How to create a workspace switcher in Rainmeter?

[BlueJive]

Ah, good shout. This happened:



No idea why, but at least we know your code is probably working fine!

[deflore08]

We know why.. Looks you did not intall VirtualDesktops cmdlets. You must open shell from administrator name. Then try to type:
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted, should help. After this you should be able to install the module.

If it won't help, try to read this and this.

[BlueJive]

Yay! It's working now! Thanks so much, really helpful.

[deflore08]

You're welcome. Please, mark the thread as solved. Thank you.

[BlueJive]

How to resolve sorry?

[deflore08]

How to resolve sorry?

Edit the post and set the green check mark as topic icon.

[Jeff]

Kinda late but khanhas also made a workspace switcher in their Polybar skin, it uses AHK instead

[BlueJive]

For future viewers, there is a quicker way to switch workspaces. Get nircmd:

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

And place it in a "nircmd" folder in resources. Then rewrite the left workspace swithcer code to look like this:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1

[ghost1]
Meter=Image
ImageName=#@#Icons\ghost-red.png
H=13
LeftMouseUpAction=["#@#nircmd\nircmd.exe" SendKeyPress lwin+ctrl+left]["#@#nircmd\nircmd.exe" SendKeyPress lwin+ctrl+left]

Thiis obviously goes two workspaces to the left, allowing it to always fall upon the first workspace (presuming you are using three, as I am). This seems to be quicker than executing code in powershell for some reason

Obviously for the far right you would switch "left" to "right". However, the middle one needs to stay the same, I don't know how to code "if" statements in Rainmeter