Hide all floating windows

[jasonvarga]

I'd like to be able to set up a keyboard shortcut that'll hide all floating windows, leaving my managed ones visible.

This sounds like something that should be possible with Yabai by querying windows and using a loop or two.

If anyone has any ideas that'd be great. Otherwise I'll post back here if I work it out myself.

[jasonvarga]

Not pretty, but I was able to write this in PHP since it's what I'm familiar with. I went with this:

<?php

$windows = json_decode(shell_exec('/opt/homebrew/bin/yabai -m query --windows'));
$windows = array_filter($windows, fn ($window) => $window->floating);
$windows = array_map(fn ($window) => $window->id, $windows);

foreach ($windows as $id) {
    shell_exec("/opt/homebrew/bin/yabai -m window $id --minimize");
}

Then set up a shortcut to run that file. I use Hammerspoon.

hs.hotkey.bind('cmd alt ctrl', 'h', function()
  hs.task.new('/opt/homebrew/bin/php', nil, {'/Users/jason/.dotfiles/yabai/hide-floating-windows.php'}):start()
end)

[24unix]

+1 for using php. I really love shell scripting in php as it’s much more elegant than Perl or Python.

[Bellavene]

Agreed, looks much prettier

[adorabilis]

Here’s a one-liner with jq:

yabai -m query --windows | jq '.[] | select(."is-floating"==true) | .id' | while read id; do yabai -m window $id --minimize; done

Add it to .skhdrc:

# Hide floating windows
alt - h : yabai -m query --windows \
  | jq '.[] | select(."is-floating"==true) | .id' \
  | while read id; do yabai -m window $id --minimize; done