FR: Always-on-top mode

[luckman212]

I will see if I can figure out how to make a PR for this, but...

It would be very nice to have a floating always-on-top window mode, so reference notes could be floated above VSCode (or any other window)

I had written a similar scratchpad type of tool for Hammerspoon and by setting a couple of flags on the Window type, you could get the window to float and also have a thinner titlebar (NSWindowStyleMaskUtilityWindow) which was quite appealing.

see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nswindowstylemask/nswindowstylemaskutilitywindow

[Drugoy]

That's a task for your window manager.

[luckman212]

@Drugoy Unfortunately on macOS there is no such feature in the native WM, and no way for a 3rd party app to affect another app's windows to my knowledge.

[alilleybrinker]

There are Mac window managers. You might look into Amethyst and see how they do it. https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

[luckman212]

I never said there were no window managers, just that there is no way for one to change the properties of another app's windows (for example setting the AlwaysOnTop attribute).

Amethyst looks like a nice WM, but I see nothing in the docs about making windows float.