Protecting a window from being closed

[UltraBlackLinux]

Hey there,
In a tiling WM it's quick and easy to close a window, maybe also by accident. This is particularly frustrating when you have something in a window that you really needed. Terminals like alacritty just close with the process, which can have some bad consequences.
I thus suggest the ability to protect a window from being closed with a key. There could be a new key action that locks and unlocks a window. For hyprctl I guess it could be a window flag that can be read and acted upon - I think that would be the simplest option. I also suggest adding a way to style the protected windows differently in the config.
Thanks!

[vaxerski]

you could prevent it with a script for now

[UltraBlackLinux]

hmm closewindow doesn't appear to be cancellable. Or do you have a different idea in mind?

[vaxerski]

hyprctl activewindow | grep "dontclosethisclass" || hyprctl dispatch killactive

[UltraBlackLinux]

for anyone curious I'm now left with this:

bind = $mainMod, ESCAPE, exec, hyprctl dispatch tagwindow protected activewindow && notify-send -t 500 "Window $(hyprctl activewindow | grep tags | grep protected &>/dev/null && echo protected || echo released)"
bind = $mainMod, Q, exec, hyprctl activewindow | grep tags | grep protected && notify-send -t 500 "Window protected" || hyprctl dispatch killactive

might not be the prettiest, but it works. Thanks vaxerski!