src/app/features/room/widgets/FloatingWidget.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+import React, { useEffect, useSyncExternalStore } from 'react';
+import { Box, color, config, Icon, IconButton, Icons, Text } from 'folds';
+import { useSetAtom } from 'jotai';
+import {
+  destroyAllWidgetSessions,
+  destroyWidgetSession,
+  FLOATING_WIDGET,
+  floatingWidgetSessions,
+  subscribeWidgetSessions,
+  widgetSessionsVersion,
+} from './widgetSessions';
+import { useRoomNavigate } from '../../../hooks/useRoomNavigate';
+import { widgetViewingAtom, widgetsPanelAtom } from '../../../state/widgetsPanel';
+import { zIndices } from '../../../styles/zIndex';
+
+/**
+ * [Gitea #205] Title bar for a widget kept on screen (MSC2931) after its room
+ * or the Widgets panel was left. The widget's own frame is positioned by
+ * widgetSessions.ts right below this bar. Mounted once for the signed-in
+ * client; unmounting (logout) stops every widget.
+ */
+export function FloatingWidget() {
+  useSyncExternalStore(subscribeWidgetSessions, widgetSessionsVersion);
+  const { navigateRoom } = useRoomNavigate();
+  const setPanel = useSetAtom(widgetsPanelAtom);
+  const setViewing = useSetAtom(widgetViewingAtom);
+  useEffect(() => () => destroyAllWidgetSessions(), []);
+
+  const session = floatingWidgetSessions()[0];
+  if (!session) return null;
+  const f = FLOATING_WIDGET;
+  const back = () => {
+    setViewing((prev) => ({ ...prev, [session.roomId]: session.widgetId }));
+    setPanel(true);
+    navigateRoom(session.roomId);
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <Box
+      role="region"
+      aria-label={`${session.name} (kept on screen)`}
+      alignItems="Center"
+      gap="100"
+      style={{
+        position: 'fixed',
+        right: f.right,
+        bottom: f.bottom + f.height,
+        width: f.width,
+        height: f.bar,
+        zIndex: zIndices.floatingWidget,
+        padding: `0 ${config.space.S100} 0 ${config.space.S300}`,
+        background: color.Surface.Container,
+        color: color.Surface.OnContainer,
+        borderRadius: '8px 8px 0 0',
+        boxShadow: '0 8px 24px rgba(0,0,0,0.35)',
+      }}
+    >
+      <Icon size="100" src={Icons.Category} />
+      <Text size="T300" truncate style={{ flexGrow: 1 }}>
+        {session.name}
+      </Text>
+      <IconButton size="300" radii="300" variant="Surface" aria-label="Back to room" onClick={back}>
+        <Icon size="100" src={Icons.ArrowGoLeft} />
+      </IconButton>
+      <IconButton
+        size="300"
+        radii="300"
+        variant="Surface"
+        aria-label={`Close ${session.name}`}
+        onClick={() => destroyWidgetSession(session.key)}
+      >
+        <Icon size="100" src={Icons.Cross} />
+      </IconButton>
+    </Box>
+  );
+}

src/app/features/room/widgets/RoomWidgetView.tsx

@@ -1,133 +1,48 @@
-import React, { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
+import React, { useEffect, useRef, useSyncExternalStore } from 'react';
 import { Box, Icon, Icons, Text, color } from 'folds';
-import {
+import { Room } from 'matrix-js-sdk';
-  MatrixEvent,
+import { Widget } from 'matrix-widget-api';
-  MatrixEventEvent,
-  Room,
-  RoomEvent,
-  RoomEventHandlerMap,
-  RoomStateEvent,
-} from 'matrix-js-sdk';
-import { Capability, ClientWidgetApi, IRoomEvent, Widget } from 'matrix-widget-api';
 import { useMatrixClient } from '../../../hooks/useMatrixClient';
-import { GeneralWidgetDriver } from './GeneralWidgetDriver';
-import { WidgetPermissionRequest, isWidgetUrlSafe, widgetCompleteUrl } from './widgetUtils';
-import { restrictWidgetMessages } from '../../../plugins/widgetTransport';
 import { WidgetPermissionPrompt } from './WidgetPermissionPrompt';
-import { isFromFilteredTimelineSet } from '../../../utils/room';
+import {
-
+  attachWidgetSession,
-type PendingAsk = {
+  detachWidgetSession,
-  requests: WidgetPermissionRequest[];
+  getWidgetSession,
-  origin: string;
+  subscribeWidgetSessions,
-  resolve: (allowed: Set<Capability>, remember: boolean) => void;
+  widgetSessionKey,
-};
+  widgetSessionsVersion,
+} from './widgetSessions';
 
 type RoomWidgetViewProps = {
   room: Room;
   widget: Widget;
 };
 
-// Hosts one room widget in a sandboxed iframe via ClientWidgetApi (so widgets
+// Shows one room widget in the Widgets panel. The widget itself runs in a
-// that wait on the client handshake load). Display-only access is granted
+// session (widgetSessions.ts) whose sandboxed iframe lives in an app-level
-// silently; reading/sending in this room is asked for (WidgetPermissionPrompt)
+// layer and is positioned over this placeholder, so a widget that asked to
-// and, once granted, the room's live events are fed to the widget.
+// stay on screen can keep running in a floating window after the panel closes.
-// Re-mounts only when the widget id or its (template) URL changes — not on every
+// Display-only access is granted silently; reading/sending in this room is
-// unrelated room-state update — so viewing a widget doesn't reload constantly.
+// asked for (WidgetPermissionPrompt) and, once granted, the room's live events
+// are fed to the widget. Re-attaches only when the widget id or its (template)
+// URL changes, so viewing a widget doesn't reload it on unrelated state updates.
 export function RoomWidgetView({ room, widget }: RoomWidgetViewProps) {
   const mx = useMatrixClient();
-  const containerRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
+  const slotRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
   const widgetRef = useRef(widget);
   widgetRef.current = widget;
-  const [blocked, setBlocked] = useState(false);
+  const key = widgetSessionKey(room.roomId, widget.id);
-  const [pendingAsk, setPendingAsk] = useState<PendingAsk>();
+  useSyncExternalStore(subscribeWidgetSessions, widgetSessionsVersion);
+  const session = getWidgetSession(key);
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    const container = containerRef.current;
+    const slot = slotRef.current;
-    if (!container) return undefined;
+    if (!slot) return undefined;
-    const current = widgetRef.current;
+    attachWidgetSession(mx, room, widgetRef.current, slot);
+    return () => detachWidgetSession(key, slot);
+  }, [mx, room, key, widget.templateUrl]);
 
-    const completeUrl = widgetCompleteUrl(current, mx, room.roomId);
+  if (session?.blocked) {
-
-    // Security: never render a same-origin widget with allow-same-origin (a
-    // same-origin frame could break out of the sandbox against our own origin).
-    if (!isWidgetUrlSafe(completeUrl, window.location.origin)) {
-      setBlocked(true);
-      return undefined;
-    }
-    setBlocked(false);
-
-    const iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
-    iframe.title = current.name || 'Widget';
-    iframe.sandbox.value =
-      'allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-downloads';
-    iframe.allow = 'autoplay; clipboard-write;';
-    iframe.src = completeUrl;
-    iframe.style.width = '100%';
-    iframe.style.height = '100%';
-    iframe.style.border = 'none';
-    container.append(iframe);
-
-    let origin = completeUrl;
-    try {
-      origin = new URL(completeUrl).host;
-    } catch {
-      // isWidgetUrlSafe already rejected unparsable URLs
-    }
-    let cancelAsk: (() => void) | undefined;
-    const driver = new GeneralWidgetDriver(
-      mx,
-      room.roomId,
-      { id: current.id, url: current.templateUrl },
-      (requests) =>
-        new Promise((resolve) => {
-          let settled = false;
-          const done = (allowed: Set<Capability>, remember: boolean) => {
-            if (settled) return;
-            settled = true;
-            cancelAsk = undefined;
-            setPendingAsk(undefined);
-            resolve({ allowed, remember });
-          };
-          cancelAsk = () => done(new Set(), false);
-          setPendingAsk({ requests, origin, resolve: done });
-        }),
-    );
-    const clientApi = new ClientWidgetApi(current, iframe, driver);
-    // Only messages from this widget's own frame and origin are handled, so a
-    // widget can't impersonate another one (or the call).
-    restrictWidgetMessages(clientApi, iframe, current.origin);
-    clientApi.setViewedRoomId(room.roomId);
-
-    // Live room events for widgets that were allowed to see them
-    // (ClientWidgetApi drops anything the widget has no capability for).
-    const feed = (ev: MatrixEvent) => {
-      if (ev.getRoomId() !== room.roomId) return;
-      if (ev.isBeingDecrypted() || ev.isDecryptionFailure()) return;
-      clientApi.feedEvent(ev.getEffectiveEvent() as IRoomEvent).catch(() => undefined);
-    };
-    const onTimeline: RoomEventHandlerMap[RoomEvent.Timeline] = (ev, r, toStart, removed, data) => {
-      if (toStart || removed || !data?.liveEvent) return;
-      if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259] don't feed widgets each event twice
-      if (ev.isBeingDecrypted()) ev.once(MatrixEventEvent.Decrypted, feed);
-      else feed(ev);
-    };
-    const onState = (ev: MatrixEvent) => {
-      if (ev.getRoomId() !== room.roomId) return;
-      clientApi.feedStateUpdate(ev.getEffectiveEvent() as IRoomEvent).catch(() => undefined);
-    };
-    mx.on(RoomEvent.Timeline, onTimeline);
-    mx.on(RoomStateEvent.Events, onState);
-
-    return () => {
-      mx.off(RoomEvent.Timeline, onTimeline);
-      mx.off(RoomStateEvent.Events, onState);
-      cancelAsk?.();
-      clientApi.stop();
-      iframe.remove();
-    };
-  }, [mx, room.roomId, widget.id, widget.templateUrl]);
-
-  if (blocked) {
     return (
       <Box direction="Column" grow="Yes" alignItems="Center" justifyContent="Center" gap="200">
         <Icon size="400" src={Icons.Warning} style={{ color: color.Warning.Main }} />
@@ -144,14 +59,14 @@ export function RoomWidgetView({ room, widget }: RoomWidgetViewProps) {
 
   return (
     <>
-      <Box ref={containerRef} grow="Yes" style={{ height: '100%', minHeight: 0 }} />
+      <Box ref={slotRef} grow="Yes" style={{ height: '100%', minHeight: 0 }} />
-      {pendingAsk && (
+      {session?.pendingAsk && (
         <WidgetPermissionPrompt
           widgetName={widget.name || 'Widget'}
-          origin={pendingAsk.origin}
+          origin={session.pendingAsk.origin}
           addedBy={addedBy}
-          requests={pendingAsk.requests}
+          requests={session.pendingAsk.requests}
-          onDone={pendingAsk.resolve}
+          onDone={session.pendingAsk.resolve}
         />
       )}
     </>

src/app/features/room/widgets/WidgetsPanel.tsx

@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ import {
   config,
 } from 'folds';
 import { Room } from 'matrix-js-sdk';
+import { useAtom } from 'jotai';
 import classNames from 'classnames';
+import { widgetViewingAtom } from '../../../state/widgetsPanel';
 import * as css from './WidgetsPanel.css';
 import { ContainerColor } from '../../../styles/ContainerColor.css';
 import { RoomWidgetView } from './RoomWidgetView';
@@ -60,7 +62,10 @@ export function WidgetsPanel({ room, requestClose }: WidgetsPanelProps) {
   const permissions = useRoomPermissions(creators, powerLevels);
   const canModify = permissions.stateEvent(StateEvent.Widget, mx.getSafeUserId());
 
-  const [viewingId, setViewingId] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const [viewingByRoom, setViewingByRoom] = useAtom(widgetViewingAtom);
+  const viewingId = viewingByRoom[room.roomId] ?? null;
+  const setViewingId = (id: string | null) =>
+    setViewingByRoom((prev) => ({ ...prev, [room.roomId]: id }));
   const [adding, setAdding] = useState(false);
   const [saving, setSaving] = useState(false);
   const [error, setError] = useState<string>();

src/app/features/room/widgets/widgetSessions.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,341 @@
+import {
+  MatrixClient,
+  MatrixEvent,
+  MatrixEventEvent,
+  Room,
+  RoomEvent,
+  RoomEventHandlerMap,
+  RoomStateEvent,
+} from 'matrix-js-sdk';
+import {
+  Capability,
+  ClientWidgetApi,
+  IRoomEvent,
+  IWidgetApiRequest,
+  MatrixCapabilities,
+  Widget,
+  WidgetApiFromWidgetAction,
+} from 'matrix-widget-api';
+import { GeneralWidgetDriver } from './GeneralWidgetDriver';
+import { WidgetPermissionRequest, isWidgetUrlSafe, widgetCompleteUrl } from './widgetUtils';
+import { restrictWidgetMessages } from '../../../plugins/widgetTransport';
+import { isFromFilteredTimelineSet } from '../../../utils/room';
+import { zIndices } from '../../../styles/zIndex';
+
+/**
+ * [Gitea #205] Running room widgets, kept outside React so a widget that asked
+ * to stay on screen (MSC2931 `set_always_on_screen`) survives closing the
+ * Widgets panel or switching rooms.
+ *
+ * Moving an iframe in the DOM reloads it, so every widget frame lives from the
+ * start in one app-level fixed layer. While the panel shows the widget, the
+ * frame is positioned over the panel's placeholder (`attach`), so it looks and
+ * behaves as before. When the placeholder goes away (`detach`) the widget is
+ * torn down, unless it is always-on-screen: then the same live frame moves to
+ * a small floating window (see FloatingWidget) until it is closed, the widget
+ * says it no longer needs to be on screen, or it is removed from the room.
+ */
+
+export type PendingAsk = {
+  requests: WidgetPermissionRequest[];
+  origin: string;
+  resolve: (allowed: Set<Capability>, remember: boolean) => void;
+};
+
+export type WidgetSession = {
+  readonly key: string;
+  readonly roomId: string;
+  readonly widgetId: string;
+  readonly name: string;
+  readonly templateUrl: string;
+  /** The URL is on this app's own origin: never rendered. */
+  readonly blocked: boolean;
+  alwaysOnScreen: boolean;
+  floating: boolean;
+  pendingAsk?: PendingAsk;
+};
+
+type Internal = WidgetSession & {
+  frame: HTMLDivElement;
+  slot: HTMLElement | null;
+  raf: number | undefined;
+  stop: () => void;
+};
+
+/** The floating window's geometry (FloatingWidget draws its title bar above). */
+export const FLOATING_WIDGET = { right: 16, bottom: 96, width: 360, height: 240, bar: 36 };
+
+const DOCKED_Z = 600; // just above the side panel (500 on phones), below popovers/modals
+
+const sessions = new Map<string, Internal>();
+const listeners = new Set<() => void>();
+let version = 0;
+const notify = () => {
+  version += 1;
+  listeners.forEach((l) => l());
+};
+export const subscribeWidgetSessions = (l: () => void): (() => void) => {
+  listeners.add(l);
+  return () => listeners.delete(l);
+};
+export const widgetSessionsVersion = (): number => version;
+
+export const widgetSessionKey = (roomId: string, widgetId: string): string =>
+  `${roomId}|${widgetId}`;
+
+export const getWidgetSession = (key: string): WidgetSession | undefined => sessions.get(key);
+
+export const floatingWidgetSessions = (): WidgetSession[] =>
+  [...sessions.values()].filter((s) => s.floating);
+
+let layerEl: HTMLDivElement | undefined;
+const layer = (): HTMLDivElement => {
+  if (!layerEl || !layerEl.isConnected) {
+    layerEl = document.createElement('div');
+    layerEl.id = 'lotus-widget-layer';
+    // The layer itself is click-through; only the frames inside take input.
+    Object.assign(layerEl.style, { position: 'fixed', inset: '0', pointerEvents: 'none' });
+    document.body.append(layerEl);
+  }
+  return layerEl;
+};
+
+const hideFrame = (s: Internal) => {
+  s.frame.style.visibility = 'hidden';
+};
+
+const placeDocked = (s: Internal) => {
+  const slot = s.slot;
+  if (!slot) return;
+  const r = slot.getBoundingClientRect();
+  if (r.width === 0 || r.height === 0) {
+    hideFrame(s);
+  } else {
+    Object.assign(s.frame.style, {
+      visibility: 'visible',
+      left: `${r.left}px`,
+      top: `${r.top}px`,
+      width: `${r.width}px`,
+      height: `${r.height}px`,
+      right: '',
+      bottom: '',
+      borderRadius: '0',
+      boxShadow: 'none',
+      zIndex: String(DOCKED_Z),
+    });
+  }
+  s.raf = requestAnimationFrame(() => placeDocked(s));
+};
+
+const placeFloating = (s: Internal) => {
+  const f = FLOATING_WIDGET;
+  Object.assign(s.frame.style, {
+    visibility: 'visible',
+    left: '',
+    top: '',
+    right: `${f.right}px`,
+    bottom: `${f.bottom}px`,
+    width: `${f.width}px`,
+    height: `${f.height}px`,
+    borderRadius: '0 0 8px 8px',
+    boxShadow: '0 8px 24px rgba(0,0,0,0.35)',
+    zIndex: String(zIndices.floatingWidget),
+  });
+};
+
+const stopPlacing = (s: Internal) => {
+  if (s.raf !== undefined) cancelAnimationFrame(s.raf);
+  s.raf = undefined;
+};
+
+export const destroyWidgetSession = (key: string): void => {
+  const s = sessions.get(key);
+  if (!s) return;
+  sessions.delete(key);
+  stopPlacing(s);
+  s.stop();
+  s.frame.remove();
+  notify();
+};
+
+export const destroyAllWidgetSessions = (): void => {
+  [...sessions.keys()].forEach(destroyWidgetSession);
+};
+
+/** Start (or reuse) the widget's session and dock its frame over `slot`. */
+export function attachWidgetSession(
+  mx: MatrixClient,
+  room: Room,
+  widget: Widget,
+  slot: HTMLElement,
+): WidgetSession {
+  const key = widgetSessionKey(room.roomId, widget.id);
+  let s = sessions.get(key);
+  if (s && s.templateUrl !== widget.templateUrl) {
+    destroyWidgetSession(key);
+    s = undefined;
+  }
+  if (!s) s = startSession(mx, room, widget, key);
+  stopPlacing(s);
+  s.slot = slot;
+  s.floating = false;
+  if (!s.blocked) placeDocked(s);
+  notify();
+  return s;
+}
+
+/** The panel stopped showing the widget: float it, or tear it down. */
+export function detachWidgetSession(key: string, slot: HTMLElement): void {
+  const s = sessions.get(key);
+  if (!s || s.slot !== slot) return;
+  s.slot = null;
+  stopPlacing(s);
+  if (!s.alwaysOnScreen || s.blocked) {
+    destroyWidgetSession(key);
+    return;
+  }
+  // One floating widget at a time: a newer one replaces an older one.
+  floatingWidgetSessions()
+    .filter((o) => o.key !== key)
+    .forEach((o) => destroyWidgetSession(o.key));
+  // Nobody is there to answer a permission prompt any more.
+  s.pendingAsk?.resolve(new Set(), false);
+  s.floating = true;
+  placeFloating(s);
+  notify();
+}
+
+function startSession(mx: MatrixClient, room: Room, widget: Widget, key: string): Internal {
+  const frame = document.createElement('div');
+  Object.assign(frame.style, {
+    position: 'fixed',
+    pointerEvents: 'auto',
+    overflow: 'hidden',
+    visibility: 'hidden',
+  });
+
+  const completeUrl = widgetCompleteUrl(widget, mx, room.roomId);
+  const blocked = !isWidgetUrlSafe(completeUrl, window.location.origin);
+  const s: Internal = {
+    key,
+    roomId: room.roomId,
+    widgetId: widget.id,
+    name: widget.name || 'Widget',
+    templateUrl: widget.templateUrl,
+    blocked,
+    alwaysOnScreen: false,
+    floating: false,
+    frame,
+    slot: null,
+    raf: undefined,
+    stop: () => undefined,
+  };
+  sessions.set(key, s);
+  if (blocked) return s;
+
+  // Security: never render a same-origin widget with allow-same-origin (a
+  // same-origin frame could break out of the sandbox against our own origin).
+  const iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
+  iframe.title = widget.name || 'Widget';
+  iframe.sandbox.value = 'allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-downloads';
+  iframe.allow = 'autoplay; clipboard-write;';
+  iframe.src = completeUrl;
+  Object.assign(iframe.style, { width: '100%', height: '100%', border: 'none' });
+  frame.append(iframe);
+  layer().append(frame);
+
+  let origin = completeUrl;
+  try {
+    origin = new URL(completeUrl).host;
+  } catch {
+    // isWidgetUrlSafe already rejected unparsable URLs
+  }
+  let cancelAsk: (() => void) | undefined;
+  const driver = new GeneralWidgetDriver(
+    mx,
+    room.roomId,
+    { id: widget.id, url: widget.templateUrl },
+    (requests) =>
+      new Promise((resolve) => {
+        let settled = false;
+        const done = (allowed: Set<Capability>, remember: boolean) => {
+          if (settled) return;
+          settled = true;
+          cancelAsk = undefined;
+          s.pendingAsk = undefined;
+          notify();
+          resolve({ allowed, remember });
+        };
+        cancelAsk = () => done(new Set(), false);
+        // A floating widget has nobody to ask: grant nothing extra.
+        if (s.floating) {
+          done(new Set(), false);
+          return;
+        }
+        s.pendingAsk = { requests, origin, resolve: done };
+        notify();
+      }),
+  );
+  const clientApi = new ClientWidgetApi(widget, iframe, driver);
+  // Only messages from this widget's own frame and origin are handled, so a
+  // widget can't impersonate another one (or the call).
+  restrictWidgetMessages(clientApi, iframe, widget.origin);
+  clientApi.setViewedRoomId(room.roomId);
+
+  // MSC2931: the widget asks to stay visible when the user navigates away.
+  const onAlwaysOnScreen = (ev: CustomEvent<IWidgetApiRequest>) => {
+    ev.preventDefault();
+    if (!clientApi.hasCapability(MatrixCapabilities.AlwaysOnScreen)) {
+      clientApi.transport.reply(ev.detail, {
+        error: { message: 'Missing capability' },
+      });
+      return;
+    }
+    const value = (ev.detail.data as { value?: unknown } | undefined)?.value === true;
+    s.alwaysOnScreen = value;
+    clientApi.transport.reply(ev.detail, {});
+    // Floating only because it asked: once it no longer needs to be, go.
+    if (!value && s.floating) destroyWidgetSession(key);
+    else notify();
+  };
+  clientApi.on(`action:${WidgetApiFromWidgetAction.UpdateAlwaysOnScreen}`, onAlwaysOnScreen);
+
+  // Live room events for widgets that were allowed to see them
+  // (ClientWidgetApi drops anything the widget has no capability for).
+  const feed = (ev: MatrixEvent) => {
+    if (ev.getRoomId() !== room.roomId) return;
+    if (ev.isBeingDecrypted() || ev.isDecryptionFailure()) return;
+    clientApi.feedEvent(ev.getEffectiveEvent() as IRoomEvent).catch(() => undefined);
+  };
+  const onTimeline: RoomEventHandlerMap[RoomEvent.Timeline] = (ev, r, toStart, removed, data) => {
+    if (toStart || removed || !data?.liveEvent) return;
+    if (isFromFilteredTimelineSet(data)) return; // [Gitea #259] don't feed widgets each event twice
+    if (ev.isBeingDecrypted()) ev.once(MatrixEventEvent.Decrypted, feed);
+    else feed(ev);
+  };
+  const onState = (ev: MatrixEvent) => {
+    if (ev.getRoomId() !== room.roomId) return;
+    // The widget was removed from the room while it was floating.
+    if (
+      s.floating &&
+      (ev.getType() === 'im.vector.modular.widgets' || ev.getType() === 'm.widget') &&
+      ev.getStateKey() === widget.id &&
+      !ev.getContent()?.url
+    ) {
+      destroyWidgetSession(key);
+      return;
+    }
+    clientApi.feedStateUpdate(ev.getEffectiveEvent() as IRoomEvent).catch(() => undefined);
+  };
+  mx.on(RoomEvent.Timeline, onTimeline);
+  mx.on(RoomStateEvent.Events, onState);
+
+  s.stop = () => {
+    mx.off(RoomEvent.Timeline, onTimeline);
+    mx.off(RoomStateEvent.Events, onState);
+    clientApi.off(`action:${WidgetApiFromWidgetAction.UpdateAlwaysOnScreen}`, onAlwaysOnScreen);
+    cancelAsk?.();
+    clientApi.stop();
+  };
+  return s;
+}

src/app/pages/Router.tsx

@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ import { SHARE_PAGE_PATH } from '../../swShare';
 import { RouteError } from './RouteError';
 import { CallStatusRenderer } from './CallStatusRenderer';
 import { CallEmbedProvider } from '../components/CallEmbedProvider';
+import { FloatingWidget } from '../features/room/widgets/FloatingWidget';
 
 const Share = React.lazy(() => import('./client/share/Share').then((m) => ({ default: m.Share })));
 
@@ -197,6 +198,7 @@ export const createRouter = (clientConfig: ClientConfig, screenSize: ScreenSize)
                           <Outlet />
                         </ClientLayout>
                         <CallStatusRenderer />
+                        <FloatingWidget />
                       </CallEmbedProvider>
                       <React.Suspense fallback={null}>
                         <SearchModalRenderer />

src/app/state/widgetsPanel.ts

@@ -2,3 +2,7 @@ import { atom } from 'jotai';
 
 // Whether the room's Widgets side-panel is open (mirrors mediaGalleryAtom).
 export const widgetsPanelAtom = atom<boolean>(false);
+
+// [Gitea #205] Which widget the panel is showing, per room, so a floating
+// widget's "Back to room" can open the panel on it.
+export const widgetViewingAtom = atom<Record<string, string | null>>({});

src/app/styles/zIndex.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
  * z-index values and is intentionally not listed here.
  */
 export const zIndices = {
+  /** [Gitea #205] A room widget kept on screen after leaving its room. */
+  floatingWidget: 9980,
   /** In-call incoming-call banner — below seasonal/night-light/modals. */
   inCallBanner: 9990,
   /** Seasonal particle effect — below the night-light tint so particles tint. */