Maintain Application 1 FullScreen State when 2nd Application opens in FullScreen then closes

[KAGEYAM4]

Demo: As can bee seen, safeeyes application is going to show fullscreen window in 7 seconds and let's say i am working in a fullscreen window ( here neovim), safeeyes then launches fullscreen window and after i close safeeyes window, neovim gets tilled instead of retaining its full screen.

There are other screnario's where i am running a fullscreen window, and then click some action which launches another full screen window, now when the new fullscreen window is close, the original window gets tilled.

This introduces friction where now i have to fullscreen the window myself. If we can have a config for this, it will be awesome.

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New FullScreen Window should not change fullscreen state of other windows on a workspace.

Lets say, On a workspace, Window1 and Window2 are tiled. Window3 opens in fullscreen, Window4 opens in fullscreen. Now when closing Window4, Window3 should be still be in fullscreen ( currently it tiles itself ).

The problem with exit_window_retains_fullscreen = true is that if on a workspace window1 and window2 are tiled, window3 opens with fullscreen, now when window3 closes, the previously two tiled windows won’t be in tiled and instead one of them takes over the full screen. I want window1 and window2 to stay tiled.

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2025-12-17.12-45-24.mp4

https://forum.hypr.land/t/maintain-application-1-fullscreen-state-when-2nd-application-opens-in-fullscreen-then-closes/303/1

[Vladimir-csp]

Related: #9935

[vaxerski]

I think thats just exit_window_retains_fullscreen or whatever its called?

[KAGEYAM4]

We already discussed this, it took me time to create a dicussion here as this request is niche and hope it can attract others opionion on this feature. I added more info in top to have more clearity.