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title: "Floating windows and app rules"
description: "Take a window out of the strip so it floats above the columns, and set rules that float an app's windows or pick their first column."
url: https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/floating-windows
lang: en
---

# Some windows float

Take a window out of the strip with ⌃⌥T and it floats above the columns; press it again and it tiles back where it was.

- **Float and tile:** One shortcut takes a window out of the strip and puts it back.
- **App rules:** Float an app's windows, or choose the column they open in. Rules apply to new windows.
- **Your session comes first:** Windows the strip already saved come back where they were, whatever the rules say.

**Scrolling Windows is optional.** It stays off until you turn it on. While it's on, window snapping and automatic window snapshots pause, and restoring a workspace turns it off; the strip saves its own session instead.

## Keep exploring

- [Scrolling Windows](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/scrolling-windows)
- [Column widths](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/column-widths)
- [Stacks](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/stacks)
- [Tabbed columns](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/tabbed-columns)
- [Grid tiling](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/grid-tiling)
- [Strip overview](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/strip-overview)
- [Scrolling on several displays](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/multiple-displays)
- [Trackpad swipe](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/trackpad-swipe)
- [Focus, gaps and the Dock](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/focus-and-gaps)
- [All features](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features)

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