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
- hypr/layouts/: drop-in layout registry. init.lua auto-discovers layouts/<name>.lua
(each self-describing) and exposes the global `layouts` table: set_default (picked
in hyprland.lua — now scrolling, direction down), set(ws,name,dir) for live
per-workspace switching (verified it re-tiles the active ws), set_fit(0/1). Writes
a manifest + per-ws state for the menu. Ships scrolling/dwindle/master/monocle.
- Scrolling default: column_width 0.5 (active column < viewport so prev/next stay
clickable), focus_fit_method 1 (centered follow), fullscreen_on_one_column.
- astal-menu taskbar pop-open: workspace layout selector + direction + a "Centered"
toggle (focus_fit_method), and a per-window list — [icon+title → jump][⇤ here →
pull to current workspace], keeping jump-to-window intact.
- eww bar menu buttons open the menu explicitly from the top (menu-toggle.sh toggle top).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XUWCXM4KhjRkwheaA3X7bP
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki