Is there a way to toggle center-column-on-focus on/off?

[adwaymalhotra]

I usually want the focused window to be centered. However, sometimes when I need to look at two windows very often, I would like to disable this behavior.

Ideally there would be an action or a keybind which I could define in the config to toggle between these states.

[YaLTeR]

Currently I guess your options are to either use center = never and manual Super+C (center-column) bind, or a script that comments it in and out in the config on the fly.

[adwaymalhotra]

Thanks for responding! Niri has become more or less indispensable for me in the last few months!

The script is an interesting idea. I'll try that, thanks!

Meanwhile, is there a way I can file a feature request to add an action which does this?

[YaLTeR]

Hm, I'm just not sure if we should open these floodgates of adding actions to transiently toggle every config setting. Maybe waiting for some more general "transiently change config" solution would be better? Or maybe something like "reload-config" action to avoid waiting for the config live-reload refresh interval would already make this usable?

[adwaymalhotra]

I tried it in a script and it's good enough for me. But not necessarily as smooth as I would ideally want it. A "reload-config" action would help with that I suppose.

The more general solution sounds great, though. So, whatever you think is best. :)