Floating View No Longer Appears Over Maximized/Full-Screen Apps

Bugs or Unexpected Behavior
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Hi! I’ve been using BetterTouchTool’s floating views for a while, and recently I noticed a change in behavior that I’m not sure is intentional or a bug.

Previously, when I triggered a floating view, it would appear on top of any window, including maximized and full-screen apps. However, lately, the floating view doesn’t show up at all when I’m on a full-screen or maximized window. It only shows when I'm on a regular (non-maximized) desktop window.

I’m wondering:

  • Was there a change in how floating views behave in recent updates?
  • Is there a setting I might be missing that affects this behavior?
  • Has anyone else experienced this?

I’m currently on:

  • macOS 15.4.1
  • BTT version v5.408

@Andreas_Hegenberg

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I've been having similar issues for a while, it seems to happen more often (or possibly exclusively) with app specific menus.

3

Are you talking about the "floating menus"? If yes - what's the floating menu's window level?

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Or are you talking about "Floating WebView/HTML Menu", in this case I think you need to check the Z-index:

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4

I think it's an accidental change unrelated to the z-index that prevents floating menus from joining fullscreen window spaces. I'm checking right now. I think I was about to make this configurable but forgot about it

5

With 5.422 it should join fullscreen windows again, unless this is enabled:

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