Floating workspaces: scroll under the pointer, and keep a window's size and place

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I moved to Omarchy from a Mac and really like the new floating workspace mode in 4.5. Two small changes would make it feel more natural for Mac users. Both are in default/hypr/workspace-modes.lua (Omarchy 4.5.0, Hyprland 0.56.2).

1. Scroll the window under the pointer on floating workspaces.
On a floating workspace, update_input() sets follow_mouse = 0 (line 335). Two-finger scrolling then goes to the window that last had focus, not the window under the pointer, so you have to click a background window before you can scroll it. On a Mac you scroll whatever is under the pointer. follow_mouse = 2 would keep click-to-focus, which I take to be the point of the 0, while letting hover and scrolling follow the pointer.

2. Keep a floating window's size and place when it leaves and comes back.
When a floated window goes to another workspace and returns, for example after going full screen on a workspace of its own, float_for_mode() and place() (lines 95-150) put it back centered at the standard size (64% x 68%, at most 1100x760). The size and position it had are lost. It would be nice if the mode remembered the window's last floating box, perhaps in a tag or a table keyed by address, and restored it when the window comes back.

Happy to test either change.

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