Yabai: How to make JetBrains products sub-window float?

[RVK4NP3N6]

Hi,I want to make the JetBrains application sub window be float.I config it by following configuration.
yabai -m rule --add title='.*Welcome*.|Checkout*.|.*Configurations|Choose*.|Import*.|.*Charges|Tip*.|Rename*.' manage=off
Is there any other better way?

[dominiklohmann]

Is there any other better way?

If you're running current master, you can do this with the yet unreleased changes to signals:

Try the opposite way: float all windows, then unfloat all windows that are the only window of the application when they are created.

# regex that matches JetBrains apps
apps='^(IntelliJ IDEA|WebStorm|CLion)$'

# float all JetBrains apps
yabai -m rule --add app="${apps}" manage=off

# add a signal that floats a window created by these apps when it's the only window
yabai -m signal --add event=window_created app="${apps}" action='/path/to/some/script'

Now the action would need to be contained in an external, executable file (remember to chmod +x it), and should look something like this:

# check if there is exactly one window belonging to the process of the window that was just created
if yabai -m query --windows \
    | jq -er 'map(select(.id == env.YABAI_WINDOW_ID).pid)[0] as $pid | map(select(.pid == $pid)) | length == 1' >  /dev/null 
then
    # unfloat the window
    yabai -m window "${YABAI_WINDOW_ID}"  --toggle float
fi

The reason the script needs to be in an external file is that the daemon message length is limited, and this script exceeds that length by a bit. That limit will likely be removed in the future, making this a bit easier.

[kerryj89]

yabai -m rule --add app="PhpStorm" manage=off
yabai -m rule --add app="PhpStorm" title="~/dev/" manage=on

If all your projects stem from one directory like mine you can do something like that.

[imshenshen]

Is there any other better way?

If you're running current master, you can do this with the yet unreleased changes to signals:

Try the opposite way: float all windows, then unfloat all windows that are the only window of the application when they are created.

# regex that matches JetBrains apps
apps='^(IntelliJ IDEA|WebStorm|CLion)$'

# float all JetBrains apps
yabai -m rule --add app="${apps}" manage=off

# add a signal that floats a window created by these apps when it's the only window
yabai -m signal --add event=window_created app="${apps}" action='/path/to/some/script'

Now the action would need to be contained in an external, executable file (remember to chmod +x it), and should look something like this:

# check if there is exactly one window belonging to the process of the window that was just created
if yabai -m query --windows \
    | jq -er 'map(select(.id == env.YABAI_WINDOW_ID).pid)[0] as $pid | map(select(.pid == $pid)) | length == 1' >  /dev/null 
then
    # unfloat the window
    yabai -m window "${YABAI_WINDOW_ID}"  --toggle float
fi

The reason the script needs to be in an external file is that the daemon message length is limited, and this script exceeds that length by a bit. That limit will likely be removed in the future, making this a bit easier.

@dominiklohmann 如果你打开多个项目，那么他们的PID是相同的

我觉得我们应该使用Title来判断这个文件是否存在：

~ >>> yabai -m query --windows --window 1443 | jq .title
"rds-console [~/Documents/jingdong/daasfe/rds-console] - .../client/.eslintrc.js"

~ >>> yabai -m query --windows --window 2145 | jq .title
"App.vue [/private/var/folders/3k/vs18p5xd7y145l5vq0m587640000gn/T/App.vue] - ~/Downloads/App.vue"

---

yabairc (use master branch)

# regex that matches JetBrains apps
JetBrainsApp='^(IntelliJ IDEA|WebStorm|GoLand)$'
yabai -m rule --add app="${JetBrainsApp}" manage=off
yabai -m signal --add event=window_created app="${JetBrainsApp}" action="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/yabai/JetBrainsApp.sh"

JetBrainsApp.sh

#!/bin/sh
title=$(yabai -m query --windows --window ${YABAI_WINDOW_ID} | jq .title | cut -d [ -f 2 | cut -d ] -f 1)
title="${title/\~/$HOME}"
if [ "$title" == "." ]; then
  absolute=$(pwd)
elif [ "$title" == ".." ]; then
  absolute=$(dirname "$(pwd)")
else
  absolute=$(cd "$(dirname "$title")"; pwd)/$(basename "$title")
fi
if [ -e $absolute ];then
  yabai -m window ${YABAI_WINDOW_ID} --toggle float
fi

[ubuntudroid]

@dominiklohmann interestingly I have to restart yabai while the IDE is running before this gets applied to the IDE windows. If I start the IDE after yabai all windows are floating... 🤔

[ubuntudroid]

Seems this broke with the latest release. All Jetbrains windows are floating now for me. :(

[cake808]

Any updates on this?
The commented scripts don't work on my machine, except for the OP one.

[cake808]

Can we reopen this issue?
The proposed solutions don't seem to work :/

[kerryj89]

@cake808 I fresh installed Catalina and experienced the issue also.

I investigated with yabai -m query --windows and saw that the title property was no longer outputting the path within it, which is what my solution hooked onto.

One thing I love about JetBrains is that they have a setting to revert to the original functionality.

Go to PHPStorm > Preferences > Appearance & behavior > Appearance > UI Options > Always show full path in window header. You might not need to do the following but I did it anyway and it started working like before: Restart PHPStorm and Yabai.