Sometimes when I'm trouble shooting some program it's better to have it in floating mode because that's the more "standard" environment. Is there a simple way to execute a program in floating mode just for a single execution?
The application I had in mind happens to be Emacs; I found a solution that works for this case at least.
In ~/.config/i3/config:
for_window [title="^floatme$"] floating enable
Then to get a floating Emacs, run:
emacs -Q -T floatme
It would be nice to have a solution that didn't rely on the application being able to set its title though.
There's a keybinding to toggle a window between tiling and floating modes and one to move focus between tiling and floating windows,
Asked: 2013-10-21 23:40:28 +0000
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Last updated: Oct 23 '13
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Sorry, I put my answer here originally, by mistake,