windowrules

[cycomanic]

Awesome plugin! I'm so glad I found this.

I was wondering if it was possible to implement windowrules based on scroller. E.g. one use case I have is that I often need to temporarily open lots of figures from python scripts. If they open up in lots of columns that becomes often annoying, because I still want to easily look at my script or the ipython console, so I would great to specify a window rule which puts all figures into a single column instead.

[dawsers]

I think it's worth exploring. I need to figure out how it would work. Like you mention, it would be a static rule with prefix scroller:. Matching rules would need to be queried every time a window is created. When the window gets added to the layout, the rules would be filtered and if one related to mode exists, then the window would be added to the workspace following that mode. I just need to see if custom rules actually work and I can get them from the layout plugin, or the Config manager filters any unknown rule out.

I am currently working on fixing a bug, which is requiring some rewrite, but I will definitely have a look at this.

[dawsers]

At the moment, Hyprland doesn't allow plugins to create their own window rules.

I filed an issue to discuss that topic hyprwm/Hyprland#7622

I also added some code to onWindowCreatedTiling that seems to work if I modify Hyprland. I will enable it if things change on Hyprland's side.

Edit: There is already a way to create transparent window rules in Hyprland, through the plugin: prefix.

[dawsers]

This is added in 3d8503a

For your use case, you can create a rule like this:

windowrulev2 = plugin:scroller:group python_plots, class:(python3)