Merge pull request #2471 from RyanDwyer/reap-when-floating

Attempt to reap old tiling parent when floating a container

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sway/tree/container.c b/sway/tree/container.c
index eb06edc2..db780270 100644
--- a/sway/tree/container.c
+++ b/sway/tree/container.c
@@ -1030,12 +1030,13 @@ void container_set_floating(struct sway_container *container, bool enable) {
         struct sway_container *workspace = container_parent(container, C_WORKSPACE);
 
         if (enable) {
-                container_remove_child(container);
+                struct sway_container *old_parent = container_remove_child(container);
                 container_add_child(workspace->sway_workspace->floating, container);
                 container_init_floating(container);
                 if (container->type == C_VIEW) {
                         view_set_tiled(container->sway_view, false);
                 }
+                container_reap_empty(old_parent);
         } else {
                 // Returning to tiled
                 if (container->scratchpad) {