Raise a window upon focused?

[mobsenpai]

Let's say I have to floating windows like in the pic attached and I want that the window I am focusing using movefocus from keyboard should come to top i.e gets raised. How will I do that?

Currently I have to click on the bottom window to make it come to top.

attached pic

hyprland.conf on pastebin
https://pastebin.com/GkQYVVMV

NOTE: this is nixos's output file so please ignore nix store links. It just targets to an executable.

[vaxerski]

you can make a small script that listens to the activewindow socket2 event and dispatches alterzorder

[MysticBytes786]

bind = ALT, Tab, cyclenext,
bind = ALT, Tab, bringactivetotop

[MysticBytes786]

yes

[mobsenpai]

Oh really! I will try it tonight and let you know then.

[mobsenpai]

Okay so that really worked. Now one last thing is that I saw that bringactivetotop is deprecated in the hyprland docs in favour of alterzorder is there any alternative way of doing this using alterzorder or will the bringactivetotop will get removed in future. Should I worry abt that or not?

[MysticBytes786]

maybe this will work, bind the "movefocus" before it

bind = super, h, alterzorder, top
bind = super, l, alterzorder, top
bind = super, k, alterzorder, top
bind = super, j, alterzorder, top

[mobsenpai]

Okay that's it. Brilliantly worked. Thank you @MysticBytes786.

[Kommynct]

Weird, that doesn't work for me, it causes the focus to go back and forth rapidly

[mobsenpai]

You have to first define movefocus then after that alterzorder.

[Kommynct]

I have it setup like the following:

bind = ALT, s, movefocus, r
bind = ALT, h, movefocus, l
bind = ALT, t, movefocus, u
bind = ALT, n, movefocus, d
bind = ALT, s, alterzorder, top
bind = ALT, h, alterzorder, top
bind = ALT, t, alterzorder, top
bind = ALT, n, alterzorder, top

[fiskhest]

I had a related yet unrelated problem on my end. If I have a window fullscreened and for example launch a new (browser) tab from that window, the original window would stay fullscreened but unfocused, requiring me to mouseclick original window, de-fullscreen, move focus to browser. I solved this with the following listener, which upon initial testing seems to work while not ruining the same workflow when initiated from a tiled window:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

function handle {
  if [[ ${1:0:6} == "urgent" ]]; then
      hyprctl dispatch focuscurrentorlast
      hyprctl dispatch fullscreen 0
      hyprctl dispatch focuscurrentorlast
      hyprctl dispatch fullscreen 0
  fi
}

socat - "UNIX-CONNECT:$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr/$HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE/.socket2.sock" | while read -r line; do handle "$line" ; done