Download LeopardWM 0.2.4

Improvements
- F13–F24 can be used as hotkey modifiers. Hold one of these keys and press
another to form a combo (for example F13+H), the same way Ctrl or Alt work,
bindable in config and the Settings recorder. A key used this way is consumed
by LeopardWM and won't reach the focused app. F1–F12 remain keys only.
- Vertical monitor navigation for stacked displays. Focus or move the
focused window to the monitor above or below, picked by physical position.
New defaults: Ctrl+Alt+Win+Up/Down to focus, add Shift to move. Rebindable in
Settings.
- Fullscreen now follows focus. Changing focus while a window is fullscreen
keeps you in fullscreen and makes the newly focused window fullscreen, instead
of dropping back to the tiled layout. Structural commands (moving columns or
windows) still exit fullscreen.
Fixes
- Sticky tiled windows keep their width across workspace switches. A sticky
window in the tiled layout was re-added at the default width every time you
changed workspaces, shrinking it. It now carries its column width along.
- Windows that open maximized hold it better during a burst. An app opening
several windows or tabs at once could briefly report a restored size and get
tiled narrow. A just-opened maximized window now gets a short grace to
re-assert maximize before the layout snaps it back.
- Progress and notification dialogs no longer get tiled. A window with a
title bar but no minimize or maximize button (the typical dialog shape, like a
file-copy or progress popup) is now left floating where it opens instead of
taking a column, even when it is resizable. Add a window rule with the tile
action to override this for a specific app.
- Higher-privilege windows are left floating instead of getting an empty
column. When LeopardWM runs without administrator rights, Windows blocks it
from moving a window that runs at a higher privilege level (an elevated or
administrator window, or a protected process), so tiling one reserved a column
that stayed empty, including when a saved layout restored such a window after a
restart. These windows are now left floating, listed in lwm doctor, and
announced with a notification. Run LeopardWM as administrator to tile elevated
windows.
- A window no longer re-resizes itself every time you switch to a workspace.
When a workspace's column was saved narrower than a window's minimum width, the
window kept snapping back to its minimum on each switch to that workspace. The
layout now confirms the window's real minimum and widens the column to fit, so
it settles instead of fighting on every switch.
- A reopened app window no longer floats over the layout. A window the user
dismissed quickly and the app then reopened (for example Edge's download popup)
could be left floating on top of the tiled layout on every workspace. Only
genuinely frameless popups (notification toasts) are now treated as transient;
a real window is re-tiled normally.
- A new window no longer draws over a fullscreen window. While a window was
fullscreen, a newly opened window was placed behind it in the layout but still
rendered on top. The new window now stays behind, and the fullscreen window
keeps focus and stays on top until you leave fullscreen.
- Edit Config opens on the workspace you are on. A single-instance editor
(like VS Code) reuses an existing window, so clicking Edit Config could switch
you to whichever workspace that window was on. The config file is now pulled to
your current workspace instead.
- Windows keep their size and position when moved between workspaces. Moving
a resized window to another workspace re-tiled it at the default width, and
moving it back never restored where it had been. A moved window now keeps its
column width, and on return it lands back on its original column.
- The overview overlay stays put when an Alt-drag tool grabs it. A
third-party Alt-drag window mover (such as AltSnap) could drag the overview
overlay out of place while it was open. The overlay now holds its position for
as long as it is shown.
- The layout survives a monitor sleeping or being unplugged. When a screen
powered off long enough to drop from Windows, its windows were flattened onto
the primary monitor at default widths and never restored, so the layout looked
reset by morning. A disconnected monitor's layout is now saved and restored
when it returns, matched by a stable device name. Its windows stay usable on
the primary monitor while it is away and snap back on reconnect.
- Switching workspaces no longer leaves ghost windows on battery. On battery
or in Windows power saver, LeopardWM turns off animations, but the outgoing
workspace's windows were only hidden as part of that animation, so they stayed
on screen. They are now hidden immediately when animations are off. A new
reduce_motion_on_battery setting under [animation] (default true) keeps
animations off on battery to save power; set it false to keep them running.