[Enhancement] Window stacking

[samukhin]

I would like an optional ability to launch windows where the cursor is located.

[malbiruk]

By optional you mean like a bindable action (by keybinding) or a mode to always open new windows under cursor?

Also check out #31 It will eventually land.

Is this feature still needed when I add a mode to spawn new window adjacent to focused one? If yes, do you imagine it as a separate mode or a bindable action?

[samukhin]

I'm interested in "mode"
#31 and "mode to spawn new window adjacent to focused one" - closer to tiling control
Flexible control and "window where the mouse is" - stacking

[samukhin]

And the logical continuation of this idea:

Right Button -> Menu -> BOOM (under mouse)
Right Button -> Menu -> BOOM (under mouse)

:)

[malbiruk]

Yeah I believe now you should be able to bind any command (e.g. the menu program you like) if you do

[mouse.on-canvas]
right = "exec some-menu-app"

in config.toml. If it doesn't work like that, please raise another issue. Though now it would place this menu in viewport center and not under cursor which is not very useful for proposed workflow.

So we're halfway there and having this window positioning under cursor as a mode makes sense.

[samukhin]

#41 partially solved this functionality

(workflow has become a little better without losing focus)

[malbiruk]

OK so it works:

[mouse.on-canvas]
right = "exec some-menu-app"

I couldn't find any wayland menus like that though (only some which use layer shell which would be pretty problematic to put under cursor), but I found jgmenu, it's X11 app which works via XWayland, but it works and spawns under cursor after recent XWayland fixes in v0.3.0.

A mode to spawn any app under cursor isn't there yet.