Mouse Interactions

Jay supports a number of mouse-based interactions that might be hard to discover. This file documents all of them.

Inside a tiled container, the tiles can be resized by dragging the separators.
Floating windows can be resized by dragging the borders.
Floating windows can be moved by dragging the title.
Tiles inside containers can be moved by dragging the title.
- Dragging them onto an existing workspace moves them to that workspace.
- Dragging them onto the bar outside an existing workspace creates a new workspace.
Workspaces can be moved by dragging their titles with the mouse.
In a container in mono layout, scrolling over the title switches between tiles.
Scrolling over the bar switches between workspaces.
Double clicking on a tile title/floating window title switches between floating and tiling.
Right clicking on any title in a container switches the container between mono and tiled layout.
Right clicking on the title of a floating window pins/unpins the window. (Pinned windows are visible on all workspaces.)
When the pin icon is visible on a floating window, left clicking the icon pins/unpins the window.
When selecting a toplevel (noticeable by the purple overlay), right clicking on the title of any tile in a container selects that container.
Any long running mouse interaction can be canceled by pressing escape.

Window Management Mode

Window-management mode makes more interactions available. See the configurable window-management-key.

In window-management mode, floating windows, tiles, and popups can be resized by dragging their contents with the right mouse button.
In window-management mode, floating windows, tiles, popups, and fullscreen windows can be moved by dragging their contents with the left mouse button.
Entering window-management mode disables all pointer constraints and can therefore be used to move the pointer out of windows that have grabbed the pointer.