https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Sat, 24 May 2014 19:49:36 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/Is there a shortcut for getting floating windows out of the way? Something like minimizing, send to background, shading etc.Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:27:08 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?answer=335#post-id-335Read docs for scratchpad: [http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_scratchpad](http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_scratchpad)Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:27:09 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?answer=335#post-id-335https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?comment=345#comment-345I understand your need but this defeats the purpose of tiling window manager, I guess?Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:31:48 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?comment=345#comment-345https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?comment=509#comment-509You're probably right, it seems like I want something from both worlds. I'm working on an application with a GUI that requires a larger window than the one offered by scratchpad. Additionally, it will get closed and opened quite often.Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:29:06 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?comment=509#comment-509https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?comment=341#comment-341Scratchpad is cool, but it's not suitable for my situation, i.e. I have other windows in scratchpad mode that I don't want to bring into the foreground and I don't want my window to be resized. I guess I still want to have a little floating window management.Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:20:32 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?comment=341#comment-341https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?comment=711#comment-711Some feature like unity does a nice tiling for floating windows...Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:47:21 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?comment=711#comment-711https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?comment=2123#comment-2123Although it isn't much elegant, you can also send a window to far far away workspace (for example, $mod+shift+0)Sun, 30 Jun 2013 18:39:06 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?comment=2123#comment-2123https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?comment=508#comment-508You're probably right, it seems like I want something from both worlds. I'm working on an application with a GUI that requires a larger window than the one offered by scratchpad. Additionally, it will get closed and opened quite often. Anyway, thanks for your help!Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:29:05 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?comment=508#comment-508https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?answer=3873#post-id-3873I have found tabbed mode to work well when I want to hide away a window, it's not exactly minimizing, and the window won't be floating any more.Sat, 24 May 2014 19:49:36 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/334/hiding-minimizing-floating-windows/?answer=3873#post-id-3873