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How to get the next window created set to floating in BSPWM

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I've written before about my usage of the BSPWM tiling window manager.

One thing I've recently been looking at doing setting up a "scratch pad" style setup to launch my local SQL workflow so I can query my local instance of data from dependency-management-data, especially for ad-hoc requests at work.

To do this, I wanted to:

  • Create a new terminal
  • Open up a pre-written base for SQL queries
  • Make that terminal window floating over all other windows

Via this comment on Reddit I found that you can create a bspc rule for the next created window only, via:

bspc rule -a '*' # ... arguments here

So in this case, as we want to make sure that we create the next window as a floating window, we would run:

bspc rule -a '*' -o state=floating

Then, the next created window would be floating.

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