close-in-switcher@Sarthak-Raghav: add new extension

close-in-switcher@Sarthak-Raghav/README.md

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+# Close in Switcher
+
+Press **Delete** while the Alt-Tab window switcher is open to close the
+highlighted window. The switcher stays open, so you can close several
+windows in one Alt-Tab hold.
+
+Restores behaviour familiar from Windows.
+
+Tested on Cinnamon 6.6.
+
+![demo](demo.gif)

close-in-switcher@Sarthak-Raghav/files/close-in-switcher@Sarthak-Raghav/extension.js

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+const AppSwitcherMod = imports.ui.appSwitcher.appSwitcher;
+const Clutter = imports.gi.Clutter;
+
+let _orig = null;
+
+function init(metadata) {}
+
+function enable() {
+    if (!AppSwitcherMod.AppSwitcher ||
+        !AppSwitcherMod.AppSwitcher.prototype ||
+        !AppSwitcherMod.AppSwitcher.prototype._keyPressEvent) {
+        global.logError("close-in-switcher: incompatible Cinnamon version, not enabling");
+        return;
+    }
+
+    _orig = AppSwitcherMod.AppSwitcher.prototype._keyPressEvent;
+
+    AppSwitcherMod.AppSwitcher.prototype._keyPressEvent = function(actor, event) {
+        if (event.get_key_symbol() === Clutter.KEY_Delete) {
+            let win = this._windows && this._windows[this._currentIndex];
+            if (win) {
+                global.log("CloseInSwitcher: closing " + win.get_title());
+                win.delete(event.get_time());
+            }
+            return true;
+        }
+        return _orig.call(this, actor, event);
+    };
+}
+
+function disable() {
+    if (_orig) {
+        AppSwitcherMod.AppSwitcher.prototype._keyPressEvent = _orig;
+        _orig = null;
+    }
+}

close-in-switcher@Sarthak-Raghav/files/close-in-switcher@Sarthak-Raghav/metadata.json

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+{
+    "uuid": "close-in-switcher@Sarthak-Raghav",
+    "name": "Close in Switcher",
+    "description": "Press Delete in the Alt-Tab switcher to close the highlighted window.",
+    "version": "1.0.0",
+    "url": "https://github.com/Sarthak-Raghav/close-in-switcher",
+    "author": "Sarthak-Raghav",
+    "cinnamon-version": ["6.6"]
+}

close-in-switcher@Sarthak-Raghav/info.json

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+{
+    "author": "Sarthak-Raghav",
+    "name": "Close in Switcher",
+    "description": "Press Delete in the Alt-Tab switcher to close the highlighted window."
+}