PWA Opens as Floating Window... How to set it up to open as tiled?

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This is more so a question to see if anyone else has come across it.

When I install a PWA from my browser (using Brave), when I open that PWA (in this case, it’s the Garuda Forrum PWA), it opens as a floating windows rather than the default tiled window that a normal Brave browser opens as. With it being a web app, how can I change the configs to have web apps open as tiled rather than floating?
If nobody has come across this before, that’s fine. I’m going to keep digging. Both SearX and Brave Search nor the forums show anything related to this or any fixes that I can find. Maybe I’m not searching the correct terms?

garuda-inxi:

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In ~/.config/sway/config.d/application_defaults a bunch of rules are set to define window behavior for certain applications or application types. It could be one of these is providing the floating attribute to whatever your web app is doing.

I’m not sure, but my guess would be one of these:

# set floating for window roles
for_window [window_role="pop-up"] floating enable
for_window [window_role="bubble"] floating enable
for_window [window_role="task_dialog"] floating enable
for_window [window_role="Preferences"] floating enable
for_window [window_type="dialog"] floating enable
for_window [window_type="menu"] floating enable
for_window [window_role="About"] floating enable

If you are not sure what attributes the application has, you can run swaymsg -t get_tree to list them out.

❯ swaymsg -t get_tree
#1: root "root"
  #2147483647: output "__i3"
    #2147483646: workspace "__i3_scratch"
  #3: output "eDP-1"
    #4: workspace "1"
      #10: con "(null)"
        #7: con "Chaotic-AUR | Packages | Requests | Recompilation | Reports - Feedback / Requests - Garuda Linux Forum — LibreWolf" (xdg_shell, pid: 5916, app_id: "LibreWolf")
      #9: con "(null)"
        #8: con "micro .config/sway/c ~" (xdg_shell, pid: 1081, app_id: "footclient")
        #12: con "(null)"
          #11: con "swaymsg -t get_tree ~" (xdg_shell, pid: 1081, app_id: "footclient")

From there you can figure out what attributes the window has which is making it eligible for a floating rule, then modify the rule or make a new one that defines the desired behavior.

TL;DR: press Meta+Space to toggle a window between floating and tiling. :wink:

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Perfect, another command to add to my toolbox!

However, when running the command with the PWA open, it’s not giving it it’s own app_id, just showing the following:

#8: con "Garuda Linux Forum - PWA Opens as Floating Window... How to set it up to open as tiled? - Issues & Assistance / Sway - Garuda Linux Forum" (xwayland, pid: 2181, instance: "crx_ffoioocmcobpchlibmahnhghifacnbpd", class: "Brave-browser-beta", X11 window: 0xA00003)

What window type would that be? :thinking:

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Ah, because you are running the browser in XWayland. X11 windows do not get an app_id. You can still define a rule using another attribute ( class, window_type, window_role, instance, etc), however in the case of an X11 window the behavior is probably not caused by a rule in the first place.

Rather, Sway tries to interpret what kind of window the application wants as best it can. In this case, the application appears to be “asking for” a floating window–at least as far as Sway can tell.

Probably the application will act “normally” if you just run it on Wayland, which will probably give you better performance as well. You can launch a Chromium browser on Wayland by passing the --ozone-platform-hint=auto flag.

brave --ozone-platform-hint=auto

If you launch the browser with a keybinding you can add the flag right into your Sway config. If you are using a launcher, copy the desktop file from /usr/share/applications/ to ~/.local/share/applications/ and edit the Exec= line to add the flag.

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Oh wow, I had no idea Brave ran in X11 by default on Wayland systems. I’ll make sure and check that from now on! Let me try that and see if that fixes it!

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Does this look correct?

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Actually in brave://flags there is an option to change it from Auto to Wayland. Once I did that, relogged, the PWA is opening as a tiled window now! I did try to put the flag in the config file and even tried the .desktop option in the exec= line. Neither worked, but changing the flag did, thank you!

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Gotcha, okay I don’t actually use Brave and assumed it used this flag the same as all the other Chromium browsers. Good to know it handles this a special way!

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@BluishHumility
I did just notice that Floorp (Firedragon as well) offers experimental PWA/Web App support for Linux :eyes: That was the sole reason I was staying on Brave. Going to do some testing on it and see how it works. Then I can finally fully move over the Firedragon. :slight_smile:

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