Default all windows to be floating unless explicitly configured to be tiled

[majjoha]

Thank you for the great work on Aerospace!

I am currently considering switching from Amethyst to Aerospace, but there is one key feature that is holding me back. I am unsure whether Aerospace already supports this and I've just missed it in the documentation, or if it is currently unsupported.

In Amethyst, I can configure it to float all applications by default unless they are explicitly listed to be tiled which can be done using the following setting in amethyst.yml:

floating-is-blacklist: false
floating:
  - "com.apple.Maps"
  - "com.apple.Music"
  - "com.apple.Notes"
  - "com.apple.Photos"
  ...

This allows for a workflow where everything floats by default, and I opt in only the apps I want to tile.

In Aerospace, I understand that I can configure certain apps to float using:

[[on-window-detected]]
if.app-id = "com.apple.Maps"
run = ["layout floating"]

Is it possible to mimic Amethyst’s floating-is-blacklist: false behavior in Aerospace and make everything float by default? If not, would this be a feature you'd consider adding?

[nikitabobko]

Yes, it's possible:

[[on-window-detected]]
    check-further-callbacks = true
    run = 'layout floating'

[[on-window-detected]]
    if.app-id = "com.apple.Maps"
    run = 'layout tiling'

[ezadEzanee]

Make all windows float by default

[[on-window-detected]]
check-further-callbacks = true
run = 'layout floating'

[ezadEzanee]

ah you beat me to it. lol

[majjoha]

Thank you! This seems to solve the problem perfectly.

[nikitabobko]

One unfortunate known problem with this approach is that all the windows of mentioned apps become tiled, and AeroSpace dialog detection heuristics are not applied. It's because you told AeroSpace to tile all the those windows

How to intuitively resolve this problem, but keep the callbacks system powerful? IDK #103