Issues with programs that spawn child windows

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Issues with programs that spawn child windows

[fdev31]

I just released a new version : 1.8.0

I believe a special workspace can do the job, if you need to quickly move windows between the special workspace and the normal active one, in two directions, have a look at https://github.com/hyprland-community/pyprland/wiki/toggle_special (same as I recommended before, but now it has its own plugin and has been renamed for clarity).

Closing the issue since I don't think scratchpads is meant to cover those use cases. If you have a proposition or a clear feature request feel free to re-open or create a new issue.

[fdev31]

Should I understand that the first window is managed as expected, but the popups it triggers aren't ?
This is indeed not supported and makes little sense: a scratchpad is one window, any "position", "size" etc applied to more than one window would just be inconsistent.

In theory one could just add support for multiple client windows but:

1. it would force to always listen to every window creation & deletion to understand the lifecycle of each
2. it would require some fuzzy rules to try to make the difference between the different windows, find a way to express it in the config, etc...

I don't see how that could work, if you know please enlight me :)

Regardless, I think I see your use case and use a very similar one for some VPN app.
Check toggle_minimized in the expose plugin: https://github.com/hyprland-community/pyprland/wiki/Plugins#commands - the name can be a bit confusing, it's more generic than this...

Edit: and have a nice day ;)