Root cause of "can jump one way across monitors but not back" on a
desk with a rotated monitor: both columns.lua's own edge-crossing and
the fallback this adds go through Hyprland's focusmonitor/movewindow
mon: -1/+1, which cycle through Hyprland's internal monitor *list
order* — not actual spatial position. A monitor's transform swaps its
logical width/height (same math as monitor-manager's logical_width/
logical_height) but doesn't reorder that list, so list order and
physical left-to-right order can silently diverge once one monitor is
rotated — confirmed with the reported layout (main 3840x2160 normal +
rotated 1920x1080 to its right): jumping right resolved correctly,
jumping back left did not.
scripts/monitor-adjacent replaces the index cycling with real spatial
adjacency: it sorts monitors by logical bounding-box center each time
and dispatches focusmonitor/movewindow to the actual next/prev monitor
in the requested screen direction. Verified against the exact reported
monitor layout (simulated, transform=1 on the right monitor) — both
directions now resolve to the correct monitor.
Wired in two places (Super+,/. is untouched, still index-cycling, by
request):
- columns.lua's edge-crossing (off the left/right edge of the column
strip already flowed onto the next monitor; now via spatial lookup)
- hypr-nav's scrolling-layout perpendicular "no neighbour" case, as a
new fallback: regular directional movement (Super+hjkl) that
previously just stopped at the edge of a monitor now spills onto
whichever monitor is spatially in that direction, same as columns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TLz6HWsXCwzQ97LrLt2em6
Adds a "center-focused" switch to the Columns layout's menu tab: when a column
overflows and scrolls, it can now center the focused window in the column
instead of only nudging the pan the minimum amount to keep it in view. Off by
default so existing behavior is unchanged unless explicitly enabled.
The astal-menu switch widget already existed generically (built for scrolling's
native focus_fit_method) but was hard-wired to that one Hyprland option; it's
now layout-aware and reads/writes columns.lua's own persisted state instead.
Overhaul the custom "columns" Lua layout and its navigation wiring:
- Flexible sizing: per-column width weights + per-window height weights
(Super+Alt resize), scale-to-fill when a column is underfull, scroll/pan
when overfull. Drops the old fixed viewport/rows window heights.
- Window parking: move u/d within a column parks two windows side by side in
one slot (persistent, split across the column axis with a divider parallel
to the scroll direction; the column closes up so there is no gap); moving a
parked window again pops it out past its partner.
- New windows stack into the working column (with a balance guard) instead of
scattering, so two windows share a column/height by default.
- Cross-monitor focus/move at the column edges (relative +1/-1 selectors).
- hypr-nav: adds resize + scroll kinds; Super+wheel travels along the focused
strip (column / tape) and falls back to workspace switch elsewhere.
- Super+Alt arrows/hjkl route resize through the layout; Super+rightclick
auto-floats then resizes ONLY in columns (no pointer-resize hook for custom
layouts) and is a plain resize everywhere else.
- Reload-safety: hyprctl reload dropped per-ws layout rules + Lua state,
silently reverting columns workspaces to scrolling. init.lua now replays
layouts-state.json (M.restore) and columns.lua re-seeds cols/rows/orient.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Columns layout publishes per-workspace column/row counts to columns-state.json
and handles a direct "cols +1/-1/N" message. The menu's Columns page now shows a
"Columns (−)[N](+)" stepper that reads the live count and drives it.
- Expanding the taskbar now fully collapses the strip (header included) via its
revealer, so the panel that covers the quads reads as a single module instead of a
thin strip plus a detached card below it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SUN7gg6GGfnToghMijLm5Y
Replaces the scrolling-preset "columns" with a genuine custom tiling layout
(hl.layout.register "lua:columns"): a row of columns where each column is an
INDEPENDENTLY panning vertical strip. Moving focus up/down inside a column pans
only that column to keep the focus in view; the other columns stay frozen — the
combination-lock behaviour that the built-in scrolling engine (single shared tape
offset) structurally can't do.
- columns.lua: recalculate places every window box; per-workspace state holds each
window's column assignment and each column's pan offset. layout_msg handles the
focus/move/count/orient commands. New windows fill the least-populated column;
changing the column count reflows evenly.
- init.lua: for Lua layouts (lua = true), orientation is sent via layout_msg
("orient h|v") instead of the global scrolling:direction option.
- hypr-nav: forwards focus/move/count for the columns layout to hl.dsp.layout(...);
the built-in scrolling path is unchanged.
- binds.lua: Super+Ctrl+Alt+H/J/K/L manage the column / windows-per-view count
(axes follow the workspace's horizontal/vertical orientation).
Menu dropdown for "Columns" now selects orientation (Horizontal / Vertical).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SUN7gg6GGfnToghMijLm5Y
astal-menu: the taskbar ⤢ toggle now collapses the compact strip and mounts
its workspace/window panel as a takeover overlay covering the 2x2 quads (with
a Back button), instead of a popover/inline reveal. QuadGrid gains a generic
takeover overlay; the menu window coordinates show/hide and resets on close.
hypr: new "Columns" layout (scrolling backend presented as independent columns)
with a menu dropdown to pick orientation — "Left / Right" or "Up / Down" — via a
new dir_labels manifest field. The layout menu now tracks direction dropdowns and
fit switches per-layout, so a second directional layout no longer clobbers the
first.
binds/scripts: focus & window-move keys (hjkl + arrows) route through a new
hypr-nav helper so they stay screen-absolute in the scrolling/columns layouts
(the layout otherwise resolves a perpendicular direction onto "scroll the tape",
rotating the keys with scrolling:direction). Adds explicit cross-monitor binds:
Super+,/. focus prev/next monitor, Super+Shift+,/. move the window there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SUN7gg6GGfnToghMijLm5Y
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki