More window rules may be needed

[tsujan]

I think there's already a feature request about stickiness (couldn't find it), but:

If Wayfire had rules under [window-rules] for making windows go to bottom(/top) and/or be sticky, it would be possible to use pcmanfm-qt's desktop module — and perhaps other things — with it consistently.

More rules might also be useful/needed if possible.

EDIT: Maybe https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/issues/1566 is a special case of this feature request.

[stefonarch]

Related to #1410

[tsujan]

Yet another rule, that's especially important for notifications, is preventing the window from grabbing the focus (= being activated) on creation.

I don't know if Wayfire has a way of not activating a window on creation, but I didn't find any.

[ammen99]

I don't know if Wayfire has a way of not activating a window on creation, but I didn't find any.

Wayfire tries to guess whether the window needs focus or not. What kind of a notification daemon do you use? Wayland-native ones like mako should work out of the box.

[tsujan]

That was just a suggestion. lxqt-notificationd works fine under Wayfire. My goal was making Qt apps that don't depend on X11 comfortably usable under Wayfire.

[soreau]

This is a patch that adds sticky, always_on_top and the 2nd idea from #1566.

[tsujan]

@soreau, thanks! I applied it to 0.7.4, and now I can auto-start Conky on all desktops by using this rule:

on created if app_id is "Conky" then sticky

[soreau]

@tsujan Check out #1572, I changed it so it's 'set always_on_top' and 'set sticky', since it seemed to make more sense.

[tsujan]

since it seemed to make more sense

Yes, it's more consistent with other parts, like "on created",...

[soreau]

#1572 has been merged.

[bluebyt]

@tsujan I tried this rule but conky only appeared on the first Desktop, How conky can appear to all workspace? Do you need to apply other settings? [window-rules] rule_21 = on created if app_id is "Conky" then sticky

[marcusbritanicus]

@bluebyt65 I think the rule should be

rule_21 = on created if (app_id equals "Conky") then set sticky

[bluebyt]

@marcusbritanicus I tried this, but I have the same result, I restart conky and it appeared only on one Desktop, nevertheless thanks for helping me! rule_21 = on created if (app_id equals "Conky") then set sticky

[tsujan]

on created if app_id is "Conky" then set sticky

[bluebyt]

@tsujan No same result, it only appeared on the Desktop that I started conky.

[tsujan]

@bluebyt65, are you sure you have the commit https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/pull/1572?

[bluebyt]

I thought that this commit was merge to the master branch? wayfire -v 0.8.0-c3dac7ee (Oct 1 2022, branch 'HEAD')

My bad I thing I forgot to restart wayfire after updating to the master branch, I will try it later. Thanks for your helps!

[bluebyt]

Finally a have the latest master branch, but it still doesn't work. wayfire -v 0.8.0-c3dac7ee (Oct 1 2022, branch 'HEAD')

[soreau]

@bluebyt65 You want 'set sticky' in the rule not just 'sticky'.

[bluebyt]

@soreau What are the difference between 'set sticky' and 'sticky'? This is my rule: rule_21 = on created if app_id is "Conky" then set sticky

But Conky only appeared on the Desktop I have started Conky. I want it to appear on all workspace.

[soreau]

The app_id is "conky" with lowercase 'c'. You can find this information easily with wf-info.

[tsujan]

Your conky id may not be "Conky". Find it with wf-info.

EDIT: Conky's id may be set in its config file.

[bluebyt]

I tried both 'Conky' and 'conky' but I got the same result.

@soreau I didn't know about wf-info, I usually get the ap_id in the file wayfire.log Example: app_id equals variant: [type: string, value: Conky]

I will post my config later, maybe it contain something wrong @tsujan 'EDIT: Conky's id may be set in its config file.' I didn't know that you can set Conky id, I will look at that.

[bluebyt]

Here the log file.

wayfire.log

wayfire.ini

Conky

[bluebyt]

For other reason I had to reinstall Wayfire and now somehow the rule sticky are working with conky. rule_21 = on created if app_id is "Conky" then set sticky

One think thought, conky shouldn't appear in Scale or switcher screen.

[JoaquinDecima]

Would it be possible to define the layer to be able to set a dock accordingly? or a wallpaper app?

[marcusbritanicus]

@JoaquinDecima Currently, there are no rules to define the layer. However, rather than using window rules, it's best to write a simple plugin to do the job. You should look at the background-view plugin from wayfire-plugins-extra.

https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire-plugins-extra/blob/master/src/background-view.cpp#L118

[soreau]

For other reason I had to reinstall Wayfire and now somehow the rule sticky are working with conky. rule_21 = on created if app_id is "Conky" then set sticky

One think thought, conky shouldn't appear in Scale or switcher screen.

If you set own_window_type=desktop in ~/.conkyrc, this patch should automatically place conky on the background layer and make it sticky, while not appearing in switchers or scale.

[tsujan]

I also see it logical that all views should appear when switch and scale plugins are used (sticky views included), except for those views that aren't supposed to be focused or raised (at some point and by using future rules).

[bluebyt]

For other reason I had to reinstall Wayfire and now somehow the rule sticky are working with conky. rule_21 = on created if app_id is "Conky" then set sticky One think thought, conky shouldn't appear in Scale or switcher screen.

If you set own_window_type=desktop in ~/.conkyrc, this patch should automatically place conky on the background layer and make it sticky, while not appearing in switchers or scale.

@soreau I hope this patch will be merge to master branch, I have to learn how to apply a patch :)

[soreau]

@bluebyt65 The other way to do this is to set conky for command and app_id options in background-view plugin, though it might always end up at top/left.