Snapping and Pop out

Browserland has two "hold-to-snap" gestures that move a window between the floating and tiling layouts just by dragging and pausing: you can snap a floating window into the tiling grid, or pop a tiled window back out to a float. Each gesture also has a one-click shortcut on the title-bar right-click menu.

Looking to move a terminal into a separate browser window? That is Open in new window on the title-bar menu — see Window-Types. On this page, pop out means turning a tiled window back into a floating one inside the desktop.

These are mouse gestures (a pen works too); a touch drag on a title bar does nothing.

Both gestures share a single timer — the drag hold delay (the dwell). You start a drag, hold the window still long enough, and the window arms the gesture. Moving it more than a few pixels (6) restarts the wait.

Snap a floating window into the grid

Use this to drop a free-floating window into the tiling strip.

1. Start dragging the window's title bar.
2. Hold it still for the dwell (default ~3s) to enter snap mode.
3. The drop zones light up — the highlighted overlay previews where the window will land.
4. Release to tile the window where the overlay shows.

To cancel without tiling, drop the window on the top-left "return to floating" zone (a 96 px square in the desktop's corner), or press Escape. Either puts the window back where the drag started, and so does releasing it where there is no snap target.

For the full map of edges, bands, and quadrants you can drop onto, see the drop-zone cheat sheet.

Skip the drag

If you just want the window tiled and don't need to choose a spot, right-click the title bar and choose "Tile this window" to drop it straight into the strip.

Pop a tiled window out to a float

Use this to detach a window from the tiling strip back into a free-floating window.

1. Start dragging the tiled window.
2. Hold it still for the dwell to arm "release to float" mode — a dashed outline appears and the bottom band lights up.
3. Release to detach the window as a floating window.

To cancel, move the window again before releasing — that keeps it tiling. Pressing Escape aborts the drag entirely.

Pop-out works on one window at a time: dragging a whole tab group never arms it (use the bottom band). While Shift or Alt is held during a floating drag, the snap timer waits.

Skip the gesture

To detach a window directly without the hold, right-click the title bar and choose "Float this window". Or drop the window on the bottom band of the desktop (it lights up as you reach it), or right-click while dragging, and it floats at once. Both work even with the delay set to 0.

Modifier drags

While dragging a floating window, hold Alt and drop it on another window to tile both and tab it into that window's tile, or hold Shift and drop it on another floating window to swap their positions. While Shift or Alt is held, the hold-to-snap timer does not run.

Hold delay (configurable)

The hold time for both gestures is set per host in Control Panel → Windows → Drag hold delay, measured in milliseconds.

Setting	Behavior
0	Disables both the snap and the pop-out gestures entirely
250–20000	Hold time before a gesture arms (default 3000)

Because this is a per-host setting, each broker you connect to keeps its own delay.

Tip: Set the delay to 0 if you find windows snapping or floating by accident, and use the "Tile this window" / "Float this window" title-bar menu items instead.

Related pages

• Arranging-Windows — the drop-zone cheat sheet for where a snapped window lands
• Window-Modes — floating vs. tiling and the tiling strip
• Context-Menus — the title-bar right-click actions, including float/tile