Feature: Implement sticky floating windows

[nikitabobko]

https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_sticky_floating_windows

• Implement sticky floating windows
• Implement sticky sidebar windows (feature interaction with: flatten-workspace-tree, close-all-windows-but-current)

Note to myself: review usages of visualWorkspace

todo:

• Make browsers PIP windows sticky by default, once this is implemented
• Make Outlook reminder window sticky by default Floating window to be present in all workspaces #1251 (comment)

[AlJohri]

Is it possible to have sticky non-floating windows? SImilar to this request: koekeishiya/yabai#1843

I'd like to have a constant window on my screen as I flip through workspaces.

[nikitabobko]

"sticky sidebar" windows bring some challenges

• What if users want to have several sticky sidebar windows
• What should happen if a sticky sidebar window is moved with the mouse?
  • Should it become a regular tiling window?
  • Or should it remain sticky sidebar?
• Should "sticky sidebar" windows be a per-monitor thing?
  • If the answer is yes, how users are supposed to move sticky sidebar window between monitors?
    • What should happen if users move a window to a monitor where another sticky sidebar windows is already presented?

But in general, I like the suggestion, I always wanted to have sticky non-floating windows in i3

[nikitabobko]

Maybe we are better off with a feature like "virtual monitors". That way you could place two virtual monitors on your physical monitor. You could cycle workspaces only on one of those virtual monitors

[nasyxx]

Is there any update on this? I have some widget windows; it would be great if we could keep them on all workspaces.

[tngafwlehmann]

Maybe we are better off with a feature like "virtual monitors". That way you could place two virtual monitors on your physical monitor. You could cycle workspaces only on one of those virtual monitors

That's indeed a great thing to have. For i3 I typically use xrandr to split up a 5120x? physical device into three virtual monitors, the latter of which can then be used for workspace assignments.

But this does not necessarily solve the issue for floating (possibly workspace-independent) windows (assuming a certain preference for floating Zoom/Teams/etc. because it's easier to re-arrange during meetings). So I'd vote for both :)