Feature request: positioning the window with command line arguments #130

LGFae commented 2022年05月01日 16:41:10 +02:00

Hello.

I'd like to be able to position the fuzzel window arbitrarily on my screen. This would allow me to simulate 'menus' for stuff in my desktop (e.g. click on something in bar and have a menu pop up associated with it).

Of course, in order to be fully functional, I would need to also have support for selecting entries with the mouse. I will open a separate issue, since these are independent features, and one may be accepted without the other.

Hello. I'd like to be able to position the fuzzel window arbitrarily on my screen. This would allow me to simulate 'menus' for stuff in my desktop (e.g. click on something in bar and have a menu pop up associated with it). Of course, in order to be fully functional, I would need to also have support for selecting entries with the mouse. I will open a separate issue, since these are independent features, and one may be accepted without the other.

dnkl commented 2022年05月05日 10:10:42 +02:00

We can't really position the window. We can set left/right/top/bottom anchor points, and margins, but that's all. Final position will also depend on bars (for example, setting a margin of 0 will typically put the surface below a bar, not on top of if).

As such, I'm not sure I want to support positioning, because it would be a hack. Likely with minor differences between compositors.

We can't _really_ position the window. We can set left/right/top/bottom anchor points, and margins, but that's all. Final position will also depend on bars (for example, setting a margin of 0 will typically put the surface **below** a bar, not on top of if). As such, I'm not sure I want to support positioning, because it would be a hack. Likely with minor differences between compositors.

LGFae commented 2022年05月05日 15:57:56 +02:00

Oh, right. I've worked with the layer shell before, but since it was to set wallpapers I never had to think about positioning. It never occurred to me there isn't a proper way to set the window position, but now that you've said it, yeah, I guess there isn't, huh?

I still think it would be nice to have, though certainly not essential. Feel free to close this issue if you'd rather not support it.

Oh, right. I've worked with the layer shell before, but since it was to set wallpapers I never had to think about positioning. It never occurred to me there isn't a proper way to set the window position, but now that you've said it, yeah, I guess there isn't, huh? I still think it would be nice to have, though certainly not essential. Feel free to close this issue if you'd rather not support it.

WhyNotHugo commented 2022年07月01日 20:12:12 +02:00

We can't really position the window. We can set left/right/top/bottom anchor points, and margins, but that's all. Final position will also depend on bars

Anchoring would be enough IMHO. I'd like to click on a status bar icon on a corner, and have fuzzel show up in that corner.

E.g.: In line with #131 and #142

> We can't really position the window. We can set left/right/top/bottom anchor points, and margins, but that's all. Final position will also depend on bars Anchoring would be enough IMHO. I'd like to click on a status bar icon on a corner, and have fuzzel show up in that corner. E.g.: In line with https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel/issues/131 and https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel/issues/142

Karagra commented 2022年07月18日 02:53:01 +02:00

We can't really position the window. We can set left/right/top/bottom anchor points, and margins, but that's all. Final position will also depend on bars

Anchoring would be enough IMHO. I'd like to click on a status bar icon on a corner, and have fuzzel show up in that corner.

E.g.: In line with #131 and #142

This ^ Being able to choose any anchor would be enough bottom_left bottom_middle bottom_right, then top varients of that!

> > We can't really position the window. We can set left/right/top/bottom anchor points, and margins, but that's all. Final position will also depend on bars > > Anchoring would be enough IMHO. I'd like to click on a status bar icon on a corner, and have fuzzel show up in that corner. > > E.g.: In line with https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel/issues/131 and https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel/issues/142 This ^ Being able to choose any anchor would be enough bottom_left bottom_middle bottom_right, then top varients of that!

jficz commented 2023年02月22日 18:26:55 +01:00

I took the liberty of putting a PoC together for custom anchoring: #213

Mind you it's been nearly two decades since I coded anything in C and the only things I ever coded were cli-based so I have exactly zero experience with coding Wayland or GUI apps in general. Expect the code to be crap. But it works (for me). More or less.

I took the liberty of putting a PoC together for custom anchoring: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel/pulls/213 Mind you it's been nearly two decades since I coded anything in C and the only things I ever coded were cli-based so I have exactly zero experience with coding Wayland or GUI apps in general. Expect the code to be crap. But it works (for me). More or less.

dnkl commented 2023年10月08日 15:21:27 +02:00

Fixed in 7cf672e9d2 (anchor support - not absolute positioning, as that's not possible on Wayland).

Fixed in https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel/commit/7cf672e9d25ae49a47cd2ec71e6eb0362c95acbe (anchor support - not absolute positioning, as that's not possible on Wayland).