Animation missing when toggling from floating back to tiling (except when it’s the only window)

[Nekson228]

I’ve noticed an inconsistency in animations when toggling a window’s floating:

• Floating → Tiling: Animation plays only if the window becomes the only tiled
• Tiling → Floating: Animation always plays as
• Dragging windows: Animations play consistently.

This makes toggling floating feel visually abrupt compared to other window transitions.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open two tiled windows in a workspace.

2. Toggle one of them into floating mode (togglefloating) → animation plays.

3. Toggle it back into tiling mode → no animation (instant snap).

4. Repeat with only one tiled window → animation plays as expected.

Expected behavior:
Animations should play in both directions of the floating toggle, regardless of the number of tiled windows present, to maintain consistency with drag-and-drop animations and single-window cases.

Actual behavior:
No animation when toggling from floating to tiling with multiple tiled windows.

Environment:

Hyprland:

Hyprland 0.50.1 built from branch  at commit 4e242d086e20b32951fdc0ebcbfb4d41b5be8dcc  ([gha] Nix: update inputs).
Date: Sat Jul 19 21:37:06 2025
Tag: v0.50.1, commits: 6291
built against:
 aquamarine 0.9.2
 hyprlang 0.6.3
 hyprutils 0.8.1
 hyprcursor 0.1.12
 hyprgraphics 0.1.5


no flags were set

Animation config:

# // ▄▀█ █▄░█ █ █▀▄▀█ ▄▀█ ▀█▀ █ █▀█ █▄░█
# // █▀█ █░▀█ █ █░▀░█ █▀█ ░█░ █ █▄█ █░▀█

# https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Animations/

animations {
    enabled = yes
    bezier = wind, 0.05, 0.9, 0.1, 1.05
    bezier = winIn, 0.1, 1.1, 0.1, 1.1
    bezier = winOut, 0.3, -0.3, 0, 1
    bezier = liner, 1, 1, 1, 1
    animation = windows, 1, 6, wind, slide
    animation = windowsIn, 1, 6, winIn, slide
    animation = windowsOut, 1, 5, winOut, slide
    animation = windowsMove, 1, 5, wind, slide
    animation = border, 1, 1, liner
    animation = borderangle, 1, 30, liner, once
    animation = fade, 1, 6, default
    animation = workspaces, 1, 5, wind
}

[vaxerski]

I have animations in both cases. Can you check the default config