Minimizing Windows.

[Mauitron]

i honestly don't know if this is anything to share. I have created a minimize-manager that allow you to (on my setup) press meta + m to minimize any active window and you could then press meta + I to open up the menu. the minimized windows will open on the workplace you are on, not the one they were started on.

oh, you could also click the icon to bring up the manager if you like using the mouse more than shortcuts.

anyway. here is what it looks like. it is using wofi for the menu and search.

[michaeltraxler]

I would love to have such a feature. Where can I find the code for that?

[Mauitron]

Hi, i will get right on it! I just need to extract it from my nixos config. you could find it there yourself as i have a public repo of a generalized, somwhat stripped down version of my config. but that might be too much.

would you prefer it being rofi-wayland or wofi? I am in the midst of rewriting a lot of my scripts to either use rofi-wayland or just the rust std and eww for ui. So, i can more or less give you one of the three, depending on want and time you would be willing to wait.

[Mauitron]

also, do you want the waybar toggle aswell? or are you fine with just have the script to minimize and return the windows?

[Mauitron]

i have extracted the code and made a public repo. feel free to try it out! and don't hesitate to contact me if there is anything missing or anything you want added back.

https://github.com/Mauitron/NiflVeil

[Arbifoxx]

is it possible to use this with rofi-wayland/wofi for the ui rather than eww?

[michaeltraxler]

This is so nice of you, to make this public.
It works like a charm and does exactly what I need!
This makes my day! Hyprland is great, but the "minimize" ("hide") feature is really missing. This functionality should be included in the standard code!
One more small feature request:
For very fast short hiding and recover of windows (without resizing them, which would be annoying!) it would be great to have one more option in the script. An options like "restore_last", so skipping the wofi requester, just bring back the last window in the list back to the current screen. Then I can have an extra keyboard shortcut for that.
Save one short distraction and save one keypress to quickly "hide" and "unhide" a windows you are working in.

[Mauitron]

I am very happy to hear it! Hopefully you'll like the new one even more. Are you able to build with cargo?

I was having a bit of problem with the UI as I am new to EWW, but It is going great. I have been a bit slow since Christmas as i am not home, i am in the other side of the country visiting my family. I will be going back home on Tuesday so I will be mush more active then, it is quite cumbersome programming on a slow laptop. but here is a picture of the interface so far, you can see it doesn't look that great at the moment.

[Mauitron]

i have added your suggested functionality. it can now bring back the windows without going through the menu. the shortcut opens them in the order they were minimized, meaning, last mimimized, first out.

i will now work on the ui.

[michaeltraxler]

That is great! Thanks a lot for your work!
I guess also others will appreciate this!
And yes, I can build rust applications with cargo.

[Mauitron]

no worries! I like the work ^^

i will finish up the code and updating the GitHub page over the weekend. should be done by tomorrow or Sunday at the latest, unless attacked by gremlins of-course.

[Mauitron]

i have uploaded the rust version and i have edited the github page. gremlins did attack and now cargo isn't able to parse the cargo.toml for me, my cursor is also gone for some reason. The code should compile and work though, if it doesn't please let me know. and please give some feedback once you have tried it out.

[nazya]

My solution is to send a window to +10 workspace by

bind = $mainMod, N, movetoworkspacesilent, +10

and then restore by using fzf

bind = $mainMod, M, exec, [stayfocused;float;size 1700 900] foot --font='CodeNewRoman Nerd Font Mono:size=16' -e bash -c 'active=$(hyprctl activeworkspace -j | jq ".id"); address=$(hyprctl -j clients | jq -r --argjson target_ws $((10 + active)) ".[] | select(.workspace.id == \$target_ws) | \"\(.address)\t\(.title)\"" | fzf --preview "addr={1}; hyprctl -j clients | jq -r \".[] | select(.address == \\\"\$addr\\\") | \\\"address: \(.address)\ntitle: \(.title)\nclass: \(.class)\nworkspace: \(.workspace.id)\ntags: \(.tags)\\\"\"" --preview-window=down:50%:wrap --layout=reverse -d $"\t" --with-nth=2 | awk -F"\t" "{print \$1}"); hyprctl dispatch movetoworkspacesilent $active,address:$address; hyprctl dispatch focuswindow address:$address'

For the sake of simplicity one can script the following commands using fuzzel instead of fzf

active=$(hyprctl activeworkspace -j | jq '.id')

address=$(hyprctl -j clients | jq -r --argjson target_ws $((10 + $(hyprctl activeworkspace -j | jq '.id'))) '.[] | select(.workspace.id == $target_ws) | "\(.address)\t\(.title)"' | fuzzel --dmenu | awk -F'\t' '{print $1}')

hyprctl dispatch movetoworkspacesilent $active,address:$address
hyprctl dispatch focuswindow address:$address

but it seems that --with-nth=2 feature has buggy implementation in fuzzel.

[Mauitron]

That is cleaver approach approach, if you are interested in a more custom built approach, i send them to secret work-spaces, this way they you won't scroll past them and whatnot, you can implement that yourself in your script if you want. otherwise feel free no try out Nifelveil. https://github.com/Mauitron/NiflVeil

[nazya]

gonna check the secret workspaces, great idea!

btw, i've just found a way to preview windows -- fzf preview command is used to restore a window in a floating mode and the fzf "change" bind is used to send it back on selection change in fzf. works great for me (master layout)

bind = $mainMod, M, exec, [stayfocused;bordersize 0;float;size 30% 100%;move 70% 0%] foot --font='CodeNewRoman Nerd Font Mono:size=16' -e bash -c 'active=$(hyprctl activeworkspace -j | jq ".id"); tmpfile="/dev/shm/fzf_prev_addr"; > "$tmpfile"; address=$(hyprctl -j clients | jq -r --argjson target_ws $((10 + active)) ".[] | select(.workspace.id == \$target_ws) | \"\(.address)\t\(.title)\t\(.workspace.id)\"" | fzf --wrap --delimiter=$"\t" --with-nth=2 --preview "addr={1}; ws={3}; if [ -f \"$tmpfile\" ]; then prev_addr=\$(cat $tmpfile); if [ -n \"\$prev_addr\" ] && [ \"\$prev_addr\" != \"\$addr\" ]; then hyprctl dispatch movetoworkspacesilent $((10 + active)),address:\$prev_addr > /dev/null; fi; fi; hyprctl dispatch setfloating address:\$addr > /dev/null; hyprctl dispatch movewindowpixel exact 0% 0%, address:\$addr > /dev/null; hyprctl dispatch resizewindowpixel exact 70% 100%, address:\$addr > /dev/null; hyprctl dispatch movetoworkspacesilent $active,address:\$addr > /dev/null; echo \$addr > $tmpfile; hyprctl -j clients | jq -r \".[] | select(.address == \\\"\$addr\\\") | \\\"address: \(.address)\ntitle: \(.title)\nclass: \(.class)\nworkspace: \(.workspace.id)\ntags: \(.tags)\\\"\"" --bind "ctrl-c:execute-silent( if [ -f $tmpfile ]; then addr=\$(cat $tmpfile); hyprctl dispatch movetoworkspacesilent $((10 + active)),address:\$addr; fi; )+abort" --preview-window=down:30%:wrap --layout=reverse | awk -F"\t" "{print \$1}"); hyprctl dispatch togglefloating address:$address; hyprctl dispatch focuswindow address:$address; rm -f \"$tmpfile\"'

[Mauitron]

No problem, I think that if you hide the windows in the secret workplace, it would feel more invisible and 'native'. although, i am ofcourse biased, as it was the approach I took.

That is a great addition! i would recommend you, if you aren't doing so already, to put the command into a .sh and bind that to the key instead. This way, it would be a less intimidating bind and it would have a clearer way of reading/modifying it for other users.

Keep up the great work!

[Simon-Martens]

I had a similar problem: I needed to minimize windows, which I don't use (except for corporate purposes, like microsoft teams), and needed these windows to stay out of my sight, but still receive notifications. Here's a small application that integrates with waybars tray module: https://github.com/Simon-Martens/hyprland-minimizer It works by moving the window to a special workspace "minimized" and nofifies waybar over the DBus about the minimized application. If someone decides to write something more proper, or the functionality (with integrating into org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher) somehow finds it's way into wayland, that would be nice! Until then...