This add-on, first developed in 2015, allows NVDA users to quickly jump to windows by searching for text in their titles or console content.
- Quickly focus windows by searching for text in their titles
- Search console windows for specific text content
- Support for regular expressions in searches
- Simple keyboard shortcut (NVDA+) to activate the search dialog
- Press NVDA+\ to open the search dialog
- Type the text or regular expression you want to search for
- Press Enter to search
- If a matching window is found, it will be brought to the foreground and focused
For details about NVDA add-on development, please see the NVDA Add-on Development Guide. The NVDA add-on development/discussion list is here
Copyright (C) 2015-2025 Jump to Window add-on contributors.
This package is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. Please see the file COPYING.txt for further details.
This add-on works by:
- Searching through all desktop windows for matching titles
- If no title matches, searching through console windows for matching text
- Focusing the first matching window found
To build the add-on from source:
- Clone the repository
- Open a command prompt and navigate to the repository folder
- Run
sconsto build the add-on - The built add-on will be placed in the current directory
Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.
This package is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.