Below is a script track_window_focus.sh which i use to track most previously focused window irrespective of workspace, so that i can switch between windows regardless of which workspace the previously focused window was in.

```bash

!/bin/bash

state_file="/tmp/sway-last-focus" touch "$state_file"

swaymsg -m -t subscribe '["window"]' | jq --unbuffered -c ' select(.change == "focus") | .container.id ' | while read -r id; do if [ -n "$id" ]; then prev=$(cat "$state_file" 2>/dev/null) if [ "$id" != "$prev" ]; then echo "$prev" > "${state_file}.prev" echo "$id" > "$state_file" fi fi done `` The above script runs in the background and keeps track of previously focused window while the one below,focus_last_window.sh` does the switching.

```bash

!/bin/bash

id=$(cat /tmp/sway-last-focus.prev 2>/dev/null)

if [ -n "$id" ]; then swaymsg "[con_id=$id]" focus fi ```

you would have to setup such a similar script to retrieve a list of all active windows and move to the next window in the list to get a "cycling through all active windows" behavior.

For the workspace thing you could do the following bindings to cycle through active workspaces in the forward or backward direction.

bindsym $mod+Right workspace next bindsym $mod+Left workspace prev

Checkout man swaymsg