Oh wow. I assumed that the use of “floating” in the bspc rule added to the bspwmrc file was what was making the window float. Looking closer now, I see the float in the line in the sxhkdrc file as well, so that one is what makes it floating and then the bspc rule is set to apply only to floating versions of that window. With that, you should be able to use the same terminal without issue. This makes it even nicer in my book. Thank you @anon71489565 for the script and for teaching me something new about windows and window rules. 
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Ya…i wish i could understand all this stuff. I do think Bspwm does a nicer job in the way windows can be moved around. That’s kind of why I’m trying to figure this out more. I’m not very knowledgeable about the configs and setup so i study bits and pieces. If i decide to move to a tiling Window manager i want to go to one and stick with it. I do like i3 also but I’m just not there yet. Moving from plasma is going to be hard.
i3 has a very basic child - parent list style of storing open windows.
Bspwm on the other hand stores windows as leaves of a binary tree. So they differ very much in the way they handle and move windows. Child-parent style is limiting, but easier to understand.
Since windows are on a binary tree, there are greater number of positions that can be referred to programmatically. That lends bspwm the flexibility it has.
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you’re welcome
we learn from each other
and i am still learning about bspwm
and yes if i only set in bspwmrc so will all terminal floating
sorry for my bad english
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i went from xfce to i3wm
back again to xfce
the way I learned i3wm and bspwm
i download many config from internet
and read them all through
to learn how to set your window manager
as you want it
and now bspwm is my new baby
in my opinion bspwm is easier to learn than i3wm
resize window with this in my sxhkdrc config
the {Left,Down,Up,Right}
is the arrow key
# Expand/contract a window by moving one of its side outward/inward
alt {Left,Down,Up,Right}
STEP=20; SELECTION={1,2,3,4}; \
bspc node -z $(echo "left -$STEP 0,bottom 0 $STEP,top 0 -$STEP,right $STEP 0" | cut -d',' -f$SELECTION) || \
bspc node -z $(echo "right -$STEP 0,top 0 $STEP,bottom 0 -$STEP,left $STEP 0" | cut -d',' -f$SELECTION)
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I like how you name the animation as “cool” 
The only thing that I liked about i3 was how concise the documentation was. It was like the Arch of window managers. I really need to learn more about bspwm at some point.
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Yes, bspwm does need a better documentation.
With i3, I could anytime open their docs and find a solution for my issue.
yes bspwm does not really have any documentation
but when I was on i3wm
I never used the i3wm guide
i used someone else’s config file to understand
it was easier for me
but we learn in different ways
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Yup, that’s how I learned to understand i3 from Manjaro’s i3. I learn a lot better by taking things apart. It’s how I learned how Arch goes together in general as well. Taking apart a bspwm config will definitely be how I learn later.
i have see and read many like i3wm better than bspwm because i3wm guide and I can understand
but in the end one chooses what one likes best
that’s the fun of linux
i’m more into i3wm and bspwm than xfce kde cinnemon gnome
I wish I wasn’t so lazy, otherwise I’d probably still use i3 everyday.
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if you need help with i3wm or bspwm
then I want to help as best I can 
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Okay so i have installed Bspwm on v-box. One of the things i don’t like. If you open a terminal and then open the browser it opens in the terminal screen. On i3 i don’t think it does that or it does but not the same way? I’m still trying to understand how to use this?
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A line of config that I haven’t pushed yet is to bind firefox to workspace 2.
Will be there by tomorrow. Then if you launch firefox it will always start on workspace 2.
You are talking about this feature or something else?
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I think that’s how i3 works doesn’t it? I’m just trying to understand it to see which window tiling manager i like better.
in bspwm if you open terminal
then the terminal is the master
but if you open firefox afterwards then firefox is master
and that’s what i like about bspwm
hope i understood your question properly
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Okay…i can understand that but if it opens in the same window and you want full screen then you either have to move it to another space or?
Edit: I guess for me i don’t see most people running with a bunch of split screen terminal windows. They want to use the applications and or browser or file manager and not necessarily in a windowed environment. I’m just trying to understand how to use it in a way that makes sense to me since I’m not a developer. Or code junkie. 
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in bspwm i use just like in i3wm super + f
for fullscreen
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