Issue with popup windows

[Hexacker]

I'm using Aerospace for more than one year now, I really love how much productive it made me. I'm facing one issue with popup windows. I'm enforcing tiling for all apps and that created an issue, the small windows and popups take the half of the screen which is not cool.

I've fixed the MacOS Security Agent appearance by setting
[[on-window-detected]] if.app-id = 'com.apple.SecurityAgent' run = 'layout floating'

It's working perfectly fine, but for other cases it's not. Is there any solution/workarround to solve this issue?

[nikitabobko]

I'm enforcing tiling for all apps and that created an issue

Well, how else do you expect it to work? (no sarcasm, it's an honest question) I assume you did this:

on-window-detected = [
  { check-further-callbacks = true, if = 'true', run = 'layout tiling' }, # enforcing tiling for all apps
  # all other callbacks...
]

If so, then AeroSpace is doing exactly what you told it to do. I am rather curious why you enforce tiling like this? Which windows does AeroSpace float by default where you didn't expect that?

[Hexacker]

It is the right question to ask.
Well, I had the following issue: When opening 2 apps in the same workspace they overlaps each others

This is how it used to appear with many apps such as PrettyClean, Activity Monitor and some other apps too

[nikitabobko]

When opening 2 apps in the same workspace they overlaps each others

It's called an accordion layout. Please, see the docs

[Hexacker]

In the setting, I sat the default layout to tile, but it was not persistant, that's why I enforced the tiling layout for every app, not it's working as expected after I upgraded to the latest version. Thanks

[nikitabobko]

The way to set the default tiles layout is:

default-root-container-layout = 'tiles'

There is only one case when AeroSpace ignores this setting: when you startup AeroSpace and there are more than 3 windows on the focused workspace, then AeroSpace sets the accordion layout. Motivation: when first time users open up AeroSpace and all their windows are smashed into the focused workspace, the thin stripes of overlapping windows puts the users away

I am not a fan of this "smart" behavior, but I didn't come up with anything better

[nikitabobko]

There is one hack I saw people using to revert this "smart" behavior:

after-startup-command = 'layout tiles'

[Hexacker]

I will test this hack and see what I get.
I want to thank you for this amazing app, it made me more productive, for real.

[Hexacker]

Well, I just deleted that part and it's working perfectly fine right now