Toggle visibility of floating windows

[Diax170]

So I'm trying to make a keybind that would toggle visibility of floating clients by running filter tiling and filter reset in a loop. While I know this is possible using temporary state files, is there a way to get the current filter directly from the compositor?

[Diax170]

Maybe introduce an IPC request?? idk

[dawsers]

There is a filter command, but the command is just for convenience, it exposes a small part of the functionality. Underneath, there are general filters that can display anything by setting specific filter functions. For example, the animation that happens when switching workspaces uses these filters too.

The command filter simply configures a set of these filter functions depending on its arguments. And other commands may configure and make current a different set.

So I think the only possible way for now to do what you want is to create a Lua script and store some state in it, so when you call toggle, it knows what you want to do.

[Diax170]

okay I'll do this then