make child windows app floating

[asdf8601]

Hey,

Thank your for this awesome project (I'm a big fan of i3 in linux and this fill the gap).

Here is my issue:

I want to make popups and dialog child windows floating to avoid the above behaviour.

Any idea of how to get it done?

Thanks in advance!

[koekeishiya]

This is a bit hard to do on a general basis, because in most cases these child windows do not report enough information for yabai to determine that it should actually be treated as a floating window. I'd like it to work that way, but haven't really found a way to do so.

You can use the query system to output information about the window and see if it is something that is applicable to filter through using window rules and/or the signal system:

rules:
https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/blob/master/doc/yabai.asciidoc#rule

signals:
https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/blob/master/doc/yabai.asciidoc#signal

query:
https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/blob/master/doc/yabai.asciidoc#query

[kabeersvohra]

@koekeishiya I have found quite often that these windows have can-resize to be false, I think a good rule would be if the window is unable to be resized then almost certainly it is a popup that should be floated. However in terms of rules, it seems to not be possible to add a rule based upon this, only based upon the app name? Is there some way we can achieve this? Thanks

[kabeersvohra]

I take that back, I found another issue on this, and this solved the issue for me (as long as the window is not resizable)

#1317 (comment)

[CassandraCat]

I take that back, I found another issue on this, and this solved the issue for me (as long as the window is not resizable)

#1317 (comment)

I tried it, but it didn't work.