Solved Is there a way to stop PIP videos being always on top?

[ljredux]

It's a bit of a pain when a video relates to an application's UI and I can't occasionally view the UI maxed out because the video is always on top.

Hopefully I have not missed an obviously placed setting. I did look.

[DoctorG]

@ljredux No, in all Chromium related browsers the PiP window is on top of all apps. There is no setting to change this.

[ljredux]

@DoctorG Thank you. I can stop trying to find a solution now.

Edit: I use Autohotkey for various tasks, so I wrote this workaround for myself. I figured I'd post it here in case any other Vivaldi & AHK users here find it useful:

#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0

; Press Ctrl+Alt+T to toggle 'Always on Top' status of Vivaldi's PIP window
#HotIf ProcessExist("vivaldi.exe")
^!t::
{
    ; Get handles to Vivaldi's PIP window and the active Window
    pipWindow := WinExist("Picture in picture ahk_exe vivaldi.exe")
    activeWindow := WinExist("A")

    if (pipWindow)
    {
        ; Toggle AlwaysOnTop status of Vivaldi's PIP window
        WinSetAlwaysOnTop(-1, pipWindow)

        ; Ensure active Window stays on top when PIP window is not always on top.  Bug requires pipWindow to receive focus first. 
        if (activeWindow != pipWindow) {
            WinActivate(pipWindow)
            WinActivate(activeWindow)
        }
    }
}

Seems to be working very well.