Re: [Notion-general] floating pop-up

[Juri H. <ju...@fa...>]

On 10/06/11 at 03:26pm, Wojtek Aniszewski wrote:
> Hi.
> Sorry if this has been mentioned before. So, point is: is there a way
> to make new (popping up) window float by default?
> I mean even on a tiled workspace. Such as, for example, I'm opening
> four consoles on a tiled workspace, run $mplayer foo.avi in one of
> them , and I like the new mplayer window to float, not to be trapped
> in the tiling.
> (I think that awesome has something like this by default.)
> I'm not making a feature request out of it, just ask if this can be
> done, e.g. by tweaking cfg_ioncore.
> 
> regards
> wojtek

Hi there.
How should notion know whether the window is a "pop-up" or not and how
do you define a "pop-up"? If mplayer is started, it's an X client on
its own for me. Of course, you could make a defwinprop for all classes
to be opened in floating mode [are wildcards allowed in defwinprops?]
Then, if you need, you could still tag them and attach them manually to
the tiled workspace frames with meta-T/meta-k-A combination. But that
does not make much sense while using a tiling wm, imho.

If you need such a floating behaviour just for some few
applications of your choice, you could define a defwinprop for each
such application. For example for mplayer that would be an entry:

defwinprop{
    class = "MPlayer",
    float = true
}

in a dopathed file like cfg_kludges.lua.

For creating proper winprops you can get the needed client info via
meta-m context menu "window-info" entry.

Even if an application has started tiled, you can always detach it
via meta-k-d, meta-m context menu "de-reattach" or right-click the window
title "de/reattach".

Hope that helps.



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