Automatically manage=off for any windows that come from a specific app.

[kodokoto]

Is it possible to have sub-windows from a specific application (i.e plugin windows from a DAW) automatically set to floating?

Sorry if this has been asked before, I tried searching but I couldn't find any others.

[anujc4]

You might want to look at this solution that pretty much does the same with Jetbrains IDEs

[kodokoto]

I have recently tried tackling this again. The solution above doesn't work for Ableton unfortunately as the window title depends on the project name, and there is no way to change that functionality from what I can tell.

I have been able to find a solution, however there is a noticeable delay when opening a window:

yabai -m rule --add app="^Live$" manage=on
yabai -m signal --add event=window_created app="^Live$" action 'yabai -m window $YABAI_WINDOW_ID --toggle float'

video of the delay happening: https://i.gyazo.com/faa48056350b1b9837b1bc8404a0b9f8.mp4

This works because the window_created event doesn't trigger when the application is launched in macOS as mentioned in #174 , however for the same reason, I can't do something like this where Ableton's windows are floating by default, except for any window with level: 0, which is the main window.

yabai -m rule --add app="^Live$" manage=off
yabai -m signal --add event=window_created app="${apps}" action='yabai -m query --windows --window $YABAI_WINDOW_ID | jq -er ".level == 0" && yabai -m window $YABAI_WINDOW_ID --toggle float'

I have tried using the application_launched event like this, but it doesn't work

yabai -m signal --add event=application_launched app="${apps}" action='yabai -m window "$(yabai -m query --windows | jq ".[] | select(.app="Live") | .id" )" --toggle float'

I am not very good at jq, so it might be that I am using it incorrectly, however I have a suspicion that the reason it doesn't work is because there is about a 30-45 second delay when opening Ableton till the window pops up.

There is probably a better way of doing things, however I feel like I've sort of hit a brick wall and I don't know how to tackle it.

[hrvstr]

For Ableton Live I use these rules:

yabai -m rule --add app="^Live$" title="^.*\[.*\]$" manage=on
yabai -m rule --add app="^Live$" title="^Unbenannt$" manage=on

It matches project names foo [bar] and empty projects Unbenannt in the window title. Plugins are not affected.

[kodokoto]

Thank you so much, I just tried it and it works!