Have you tried detaching the black cables yet?

Amateur, mine is a klein bottle.

Oh yeah, that would be pretty cursed.

I suppose what you want is floating the window and making it fullscreen, returning it to it’s position in the layout after returning it to it’s normal size?

I want to fullscreen a window that is contained within a column and when I toggle out of the fullscreen the window must not be expelled out of the column(staying in place). For example in Hyprland’s scrolling layout windows that are fullscreen keep are kept in the column (it looks clunky as hell).

To be honest, sounds like a bit of pain to implement.

I talked to Niri’s developer long time ago on Matrix and he agreed on that, however this behaviour (or apparent behaviour) is not the same with tabbed windows withing a column. I understand that within the windowing logic it is hard thing to do, and that they are not the same operations.

For what is worth, I’m not the only one with this problem, many people have expressed the same thought.

I tried Niri for a little more than a month and it is great I feel that regular tiling is better. Sure, the scrolling layout has the benefit of not having to resize windows as often, but at the cost of having to look/search for those windows that overflow the workspace view. Also Niri has a problem that when you toggle fullscreen on a window inside a column it will expel it out from the column. And I’m not a fan of the dynamic workspaces amongst some other little quirks too. I have a blog post about it if you are interested.

Nonetheless it is a great window manager and it is in my top 3.

Picture looks like it is part of a 90’s cyberattack documentary.

sudo touch me now

Around 3 years ago I switched to Arch from Ubuntu(22.04) after 2-3 months of being a new user to Linux because I read that Arch was one of the best distros for setting up a custom system for tiling window managers. I was already testing i3wm on Ubuntu and I was ready to make i3wm my main desktop, so decided to take the Arch route. It really did feel like a jump into the dark even though I wasn’t completely new.

For a moment I hated not knowing anything but after a few bruises I ended up learning enough things to be comfortable, and learning other non Linux topics by inertia. It was totally worth it, although I would tell my younger self to take it much slower.

Everything alright at home?

I think that most Arch users that want to move to something stable are considering NixOS or GNU Guix rather than Debian.

I hate workspace indicators without an index, I have the following for Sway/Niri/Hyprland.

• Green bar: Current focused monitor
• Cyan Bar: Visible workspace on other monitor
• Gray numbers: Empty workspaces
• White numbers: Workspaces with winodws

(I also have 1-5 in left monitor and 6-10 to the right)

Well if that was your original intent then you must have known that only native speakers would have understood the * Lyricism*, which is a weird thing to do since this is an international and English speaking community. So I guess you deserve the benefit of the doubt.

By the way the link fails to mention music, which is disappointing since its common that our mothers sing about the sea when we were children.

It is “El mar”.

Likely AI generated

I looked at the documentation and I’m not sure how to do it, do you have a example to target windows in the current workspace? I would really appreciate that.

Not a developer or power user but the tinkering and unstable mindset fades away as one gets older.

Just so you know, Hyprland’s developer made “Hypr” (xorg window manager) before making “Hyprland”.

Archlinux’s window manager statistics

Hyprland has several practical features that Sway does not have. I have used both extensively and I stayed at Hyprland because of the following:

• DynamicBSP layout
• Moving windows without changing layout structure is easy
• Special workspaces(scratch pads)
  • They can be toggled
  • One can launch apps when opened empty
  • They can automatically close when the last window closes.

Things Sway has that Hyprland does not:

• Closing all windows contained in workspace
• Moving all windows from one workspace to another

I have thought coming back to Sway because of the performance and because of Hyprland’s the silly default wallpapers and splash screens, but those features hold me back.

where meme?