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Add Max Window Width for Tiled Windows
I'm on an ultrawide monitor and it would be great to have an option to limit the width of a tiled window when it is the only one on a workspace. So Firefox doesn't take up the whole screen unnecessarily.
LeftWM has this feature and it's described here.
Thanks!
Thanks. It appears from the documentation that pseudotiling is only be related to the Dwindle layout. Is this doable on the Master layout?
Is there any interest in adding such a feature? Having a single window full screen is unnecessary on an ultrawide and manually floating it and resizing it is inconvenient.
at the current moment, no. I have many other things to prioritize. Feel free to make a MR though
Adding some interest in this feature. I would absolutely love it in Hyprland, as LeftWM is X11 and I would rather not have to switch back from a Wayland compositor
Adding my interest too! this would be a great addition. Firefox fullscreened on a 21:9 doesn't look great, above all when websites are not centered (e.g. Duckduckgo and Google)
I have been playing around with Hyprland coming from sway and this is one of the main things that I miss. In sway, the settings relevant setting that I use to achieve this is smart_gaps inverse_outer it works a little different than how you have described (it is entirely possible to still have a window take up a wider area) but it solves the issue for me on a 32:9 monitor.
It is a part of the smart_gaps function which is usually used to remove gaps if there is only one window, however instead it does the inverse and adds the smart gaps only if there is a single window, I set this, then set the gaps horizontal to be 1/4 the window width. This makes sure that a single window is limited to roughly 16:9 and subsequent windows drop the gap.
I mention this, both to voice my support of such a feature, but also to provide a breadcrumb to someone who has the time and expertise to look through the code to look at implementing the feature. I would assume that being both wlroots based wayland window managers, this would be feasible to replicate?
If that counts, I'm interested as well in this feature which LeftWM has. As mentioned above floating it and resizing it is inconvenient.
this has been somewhat addressed recently through workspace selectors the following rule adds gaps on the sides when there's only one window in the workspace
workspace = w[t1], gapsout:10 400
some related discussions: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/5312
this has been somewhat addressed recently through workspace selectors the following rule adds gaps on the sides when there's only one window in the workspace
workspace = w[t1], gapsout:10 400some related discussions: #5312
Hey, @thejch, I have tried your solution but I keep getting the error: Invalid workspace identifier found: gapsout:10 400. Do you have a guess to what the source of the error might be?
Hey, @thejch, I have tried your solution but I keep getting the error:
Invalid workspace identifier found: gapsout:10 400. Do you have a guess to what the source of the error might be?
You probably didnt update to the latest version
You probably didnt update to the latest version
Oh, that must be it! I am using NixOS stable channel and the version I have is 0.32.3, while I notice now that the last release here is already 0.38.1. Thank you.
this has been somewhat addressed recently through workspace selectors the following rule adds gaps on the sides when there's only one window in the workspace
workspace = w[t1], gapsout:10 400some related discussions: #5312
This works perfectly for me. Thank you for following up. Closing.
Had a similar use case for the title of this thread, but the application is a little different than what's described in the post.
I use mdr to open markdown cheatsheets for hyprland, helix, yazi, bash aliases, etc. For all of these, I only need them to take up a quarter of the screen width at most. It would be cool to have the ability for mdr to open at 25% width in both master and dwindle layouts.
