Also not just for floating windows, also for other (user created) layouts.

It seems the names "Monocle" and "MainAndDeck" are hardcoded into:

It would be nice if this "restacking" could be done for floating windows, and for other templates.

#1211 adds some restacking functionality for floating windows.

Perhaps this should be user customizable. Right now, whenever a window takes focus it is moved to the top. Including windows in the layout. I find this is the most natural, as a I like to sometimes have floating windows underneath my main windows.

Note that the other part of restacking windows in a Monocle or MainAndDeck layout does not happen automatically and still relies on the custom handling in the "handlers" part of leftwm-core.

I don't think the current pr is a solution, because you can move floating windows behind tiled ones (and there is no easy way to get them back).

Could you explain why you want floating windows behind your tiled ones?

There is a way to get them back, using FocusWindowUp or FocusWindowDown

For example, one could have a floating terminal window spawned on top of a main text editor window. Then by using FocusWindowUp I can make it so the text editor is visible (the terminal window is now below it, or partially obscured, depending on their relative position). By running FocusWindowUp again I can bring the terminal window back into focus.

If you're interested in this behavior I would recommend adding a config option for that.

Edit: I think you would basically have to partially disable automatic window sorting.

@VuiMuich @mautamu how do you feel about this suggestion?

As far as I can tell, with this PR it behaves as I wanted it to, similarly to how DWM handles changes of focus with floating windows.

Edit: I see now that perhaps the focus manager also needs to "know" about this change, otherwise it is only temporary.