Enhancement: Allow windows in the special workspace to go full screen (scratchpad)

[Zeioth]

Currently, trying to make a window full screen while in the special ws, will do nothing.

[vaxerski]

no why

[YodaEmbedding]

Any type of window (pinned, floating, or special workspace) should be fullscreenable.

Rationale:

• I put my dropdown terminal in the special workspace. Sometimes I want it to maximize it temporarily, and then unmaximize it when done.
• When I have a pinned floating PiP video that I am watching across workspaces, I occasionally want to fullscreen it when something interesting is happening, and hide it (via special workspaces) when I want to focus on my work.

c.f. tmux's pane zoom is intended for a very similar use case.

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P.S. Dropdown terminal config:

bind = $mod, grave, togglespecialworkspace, dropdown
exec-once = alacritty --class dropdown -e tmux new-session -A -s 0

windowrulev2 = float, class:^dropdown$
windowrulev2 = workspace special:dropdown, class:^dropdown$
windowrulev2 = size 99% 50%, class:^dropdown$
windowrulev2 = move 0.5% 0%, class:^dropdown$

[marianozunino]

@YodaEmbedding did you find any work around for this? I do have same kind of setup for my floating terminal and indeed time to time I use it as full screen.

[YodaEmbedding]

@marianozunino I ended up switching back to i3 since (i) I missed the flexibile design of i3 "scratchpads" in comparison with Hyprland special workspaces, and (ii) Wayland is missing OBS window recording and Zoom screenshare support. It was a worthwhile experiment, though, since I brought back some new ideas and theming into my revised i3/polybar configs. These were my Hyprland special workspace bindings at the time.

Perhaps one workaround might involve writing some hacky scripts to intelligently fullscreen a given window and unpin/unspecial it temporarily, and restoring the window states when defullscreening.

[MightyPlaza]

iirc downgrading obs to 29.0.2 used to fix window sharing

[tchofy]

I'm on obs 29.1.3 and window sharing works first try with the recent XDPH rewrite. Can't say anything about zoom though, but even webcord with electron24 can't screenshare.

[c3n21]

#!/bin/sh
function get_kitty() {
    # hyprctl clients -j | jq -r '.[] | select(.class == "kitty") | .address'
    hyprctl clients -j | jq '.[] | select(.class == "kitty")'
}

active_workspace="$(hyprctl activeworkspace -j | jq -r '.id')"
kitty="$(get_kitty)"
kitty_address="$(echo $kitty | jq -r '.address' )"
kitty_workspace=$(echo $kitty | jq -r '.workspace.id' )

if [ "$kitty_address" == "" ];
then
    kitty &
else
    kitty="$(get_kitty)"
    kitty_address="$(echo $kitty | jq -r '.address' )"
fi

if (($active_workspace == $kitty_workspace))
then
    hyprctl dispatch movetoworkspacesilent "name:terminal,address:$kitty_address"
else
    hyprctl dispatch movetoworkspace "$active_workspace,address:$kitty_address"
    hyprctl dispatch focuswindow "address:$kitty_address"
    hyprctl dispatch resizeactive "exact 80% 80%"
    hyprctl dispatch centerwindow
fi

I've made a script to emulate the scratchpad and yet with the ability to make it fullscreen in case anybody could need it

[ArkadyBuryakov]

I would like to add my use case where full screen in special workspace would be handy.

I put all messenger apps in special:messaging workspace. Sometimes I've got media files in messages which are being opened by default in dedicated fullscreen window just to be closed.

Now I am not able to check these media files in fullscreen which is annoying and breaks UX design of those messenger apps.

UPD: also if wlogout is called from special workspace it opens windowed and it looks ridiculous 🙃

[fedoranvar]

my use cases for maximized clients in special workspace:

• fullscreen for Windows KVM virtual machine
• maximized and groupped messenger-clients