Add ontop/above property for floating windows.

[nferhat]

By default floating windows are always ontop/above other tiled windows.

Adding a toggle for this ontop state could be useful for certain workflows where you need tiled and floating windows that aren't super important.

[vaxerski]

no, why

[Aqa-Ib]

One utility would be to always see one program pinned behind others through transparency.

[nferhat]

no, why

My workflow consists having a floating window for whatever program I am debugging you while the terminal I spawned it from have the logs

Another one is sometimes for games as they behave always better floating, sometimes I need to reopen steam to check stuff out but guess what it's tiled and I can't see it.

[robinmayol]

Hi, I second this. I am quite limited in screen real estate and back in AwesomeWM I used Conky to show my calendar events as a permanent widget on my desktop. When all my windows are shut I unconsciously see it and it's saved me forgetting stuff many a times. Would love to be able to do this on Hyprland. Which is "awesome" as well btw :)

[nferhat]

Closing as this is dead and probably won't get implemented at all

[ceuk]

Does anyone have a workaround or any tips for dealing with this?

I didn't realise how often I relied on being able to switch between a floating and non-floating window until migrating from awesomewm to hyprland, it's super jarring when the tiled window stays behind the floating window (often more-or-less completely obscured) despite being active.

The only alternative I've managed to find currently is to either:

• Unfloat the floated window (horrible: disrupts layout and given that I'm usually doing some kind of visual "back and forth" when this happens, that's really annoying as I often lose my place)
• Float the unfloated window (annoying: forces me to manually position 2 windows instead of just managing one)
• Move the floated window somewhere else e.g. special workspace (annoying: more complex workflow/bindings, more "state" to track in my mind/greater cognitive load)

Any suggestions based on what other people do would be great!