How to re-float a visualization window?

[JackMichaelElliott]

Hi, when I first installed and launched Audacious, the VU Meter visualization opened in a floating window I could position where I wanted on the desktop (Linux Mint 21). Somehow I dragged it into the program's main window and it's stuck there above the playlists. How can I get it back to a floating window? Thank you!

[mschwendt]

Left-click-hold its title bar, i.e. the bar that says "VU Meter", then drag and drop it somewhere else either on Audacious' main window or outside as a separate window. If you move it carefully, Audacious' main window highlights the area where you can drop it at the left, the right, the top and the bottom.

[JackMichaelElliott]

Well, I'll be hornswoggled -- that was easy! Thank you!

[atomGit]

...or just click the little diamond shaped restore icon in its titlebar (works with the QT UI on Linux anyway)

[ExecutorElassus]

Is there a way to do this with the playlist itself? I've been stuck using the "classic" interface for years, because the GTK/Qt interface locks the playlist into the same window with the playback controls. I'd much rather have them separate.

[radioactiveman]

No, that's not possible because the playlist is not a plugin.

[ExecutorElassus]

Ah. Alas! and that's why I'm still using the classic interface.

[kaniini]

The problem is that the playlist is what Qt calls the "central widget" that the various sidebars dock to. It is sadly not possible to avoid having a "central widget" (I tried it already in the early days, as being able to undock the playlist would be helpful for some people).

[ExecutorElassus]

heh, I don't suppose it'd work the other way around, either, then? That is, floating the playback controls?
* shakes fist at Qt yet again *