Layout Center: preserve window positions?

[besseddrest]

Hey, thanks for all the hard work - I've been considering hacking Hyprland to achieve a centered layout without floats, then I stumbled upon Pyprland, whew!

I'm curious if there's a way, when layout_center is toggled on, to keep all other windows in their current position, instead of the next-in-line taking master position. My initial guess is that's just the nature of scratchpads (if this plugin does use that) and maybe this has already been considered.

So, initial state:

• master layout / center
• neovim is master
• layout_center off

Then, layout_center on:

So yeah, in this case, Dolphin (file manager) assumes the master position, but instead I'd want a void space behind the current centered window (neovim)

The one signficant issue is that when the master swap happens, everthing kinda shuffles in the background, and its pretty jarring. but as I type this out and think about this more it seems like - that's just the master layout in the background acting as expected when something is pulled out. aka the center window is just sitting as a layer on top, instead of it being more like... a merry go round

I've been fully converted to Arch linux for about 2 months now - prior to that I was on MacOS for YEEAARS and a regular user of Stage Manager - which basically keeps 1 window focused front and center, while everything else, grouped by app is minimized over to the side, BUT they actively update, so it's easy for me to recognize when a new text msg comes in, for example. Context, in case anyone isn't familiar

Suggestions are welcome, thanks again!