Layout changes after exiting fullscreen on sites like YouTube, Netflix, etc.

[vedprakash2302]

First of all, I love Aerospace! It has made me so much productive, and I can't imagine using my mac without it!

I am writing to hopefully resolve a bug I am facing - when I enter fullscreen on any app, and then exit, my window layouts change.

For example, a typical window arrangement I have is having Arc browser on the left side, and Apple notes app on the right side. So consider this flow:

1. I am watching youtube on Arc browser
2. I enter fullscreen mode to watch the video. (Or if I go full screen on any app)
3. I press escape to exit fullscreen

Once I exit full screen, Arc browser moves to the right of the screen, instead of being on the left as I had it originally. Since going fullscreen on videos is something I do many times a day, this layout change gets annoying!

Please let me know if I am just missing some configuration that takes care of this, or if this indeed is an actual bug. Thank you so much!

[PoyrazTahan]

Hey people just want to contribute this thread. I am also mainly Arc user and facing the exact same issue.

When fullscreen is enabled:

1. it disregards the tile resizes and puts it back to default sizes
2. if there is a tree tiling like nested tiles i automatically flattens them, interestingly the nested tiles window preserves the sizes

e.g for 2nd behavior: 2 Tile for vertical, first tile has 2 tile horizontally. Horizontal tiles have different sizes. When flattened smaller nested file is in the level 0 yet it is smaller.

Which gave me the idea to test this behavior on different browsers.

Tested on: Safari, Arc (chromium), Zen (Firefox based)
-> Only Safari does not cause this issue, Chromium an Firefox based ones do.

I also realized when tiled with a complex tree structure safari is much smoother to receive resize updates. The others lag a lot. I assume it is something to do with how heavy load they are taking but not sure.

Hope this helps the conversation

[PoyrazTahan]

Hey guys I played around a bit more and found out if you

enable-normalization-flatten-containers = false

This problem does not happen. I think the problem is Beside from Safari, MacOs interprets the fullscreens as additional desktops, which Aerospace refresh itself when transitioned from one desktop to another. which this flatten normalization gets triggered.

See if it works for you as well.

@vedprakash2302