I’d really like this too. I’ve come to Hyprland from XMonad, which allows me to switch a workspace between a master layout and a fullscreen/monocle layout, and I find myself missing that feature a lot in Hyprland. It’s really useful for e.g. switching to fullscreen mode for editing a document, then switching back to compare it to another window.

I'm trying to migrate from awesome wm to hyprland and I'm really missing a fullscreen/monocle layout. I hope something of the like gets implemented sooner rather than later :)

I hope I got right what you mean. I am using this
bind = $mainMod, return, fullscreen,1
I am coming from qtile and this is very similar - even better you can also use fake-fullscreen to toggle apps internal fullscreen mode independently of their actual fullscreen-ness

However I have the problem that new windows dont automatically "come to front" so instead I am using pyprlands center layout (which emulates the effect through floating - so the rest of the windows are kept in their layout)

Not quite there for me personally. Opening a new window like you said won't focus it, it triggers the full-screen mode for the application (personally don't like this), and closing a program will kick you out of full-screen mode.

Thanks for pointing out pyprland though, gonna have a look at it

Edit: Just realised what I opened this issue for specifically, I suppose this can be closed as now opening a new window does not kick me out of full-screen mode. Probably just going to follow #2050

If you set fullscreen to '1' (not 0 or 2) then the fullscreen state of the application is not triggered

Otherwise something that annoys me is that closing the window kills the fullscreen mode

But then unfortunately that doesn't cover the bar. Just yeah, for me personally a proper monocle layout would be great. I'm not the one developing this fantastic window manager though, so I am happy to wait for a better solution.

However I have the problem that new windows dont automatically "come to front" so instead I am using pyprlands center layout (which emulates the effect through floating - so the rest of the windows are kept in their layout)
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Otherwise something that annoys me is that closing the window kills the fullscreen mode

@clotodex I think this should now be fixed (for fullscreen mode 1, aka "maximise") with #6870 merged.

closing a program will kick you out of full-screen mode

@Rolv-Apneseth once #6880 gets merged, I think this will be resolved too (by enabling the misc:exit_window_retains_fullscreen variable/option).

Agreed on having a monocle layout, but perhaps that is better tracked in #2050 as you've mentioned.

@Rolv-Apneseth once #6880 gets merged, I think this will be resolved too (by enabling the misc:exit_window_retains_fullscreen variable/option).

Oh nice, thanks for pointing that one out

Agreed on having a monocle layout, but perhaps that is better tracked in #2050 as you've mentioned.

Yeah I'll go ahead and close this one, and just subscribe to that issue