Manage rule not applying to drop down list

[joshuarubin]

This seems related to #676. For fantastical, when I open the helper from the menubar, select an event and click a drop down (e.g. to choose an alert time), the drop down popup appears briefly and is immediately closed.

I've got this rule which I know works for the main helper window:

yabai -m rule --add app="^Fantastical Helper$" manage=off border=off

And I know it's an issue with yabai because the problem goes away when I stop the service.

[joshuarubin]

It seems to be related to window_topmost on as the issue goes away if that's off.

[irls-svg]

Heads up, if you want to be able to still keep floating windows on top of other applications being used, but not have to deal with the issues that come with using topmost=on you can create an array of applications that you don't want to have covering floating windows and then set their layer to below. For example, something like:

# DEFAULTS
yabai -m config layout bsp
yabai -m config window_topmost off

# APP SETTINGS

# applications with custom rules (main, day-to-day applications/fullscreen
# applications that i want to stay behind floating windows)
applications="(Calendar|Mail|Reminders|Notes|Microsoft Outlook|Discord|Messages|Slack|Firefox|Chrome|Code|Microsoft Word|Preview|Terminal|iTerm2|QuickTime|Player|Spotify|Music)"

# NOTE: you need to set the settings for the applications in the 
#       list first, or else they don't apply properly and you
#       can end up with some weird border/float/window behaviours

# main applications get set to bottom layer to prevent them from
# covering floating applications/popup windows
yabai -m rule --add app="^${applications}$"     manage=on layer=below

# any apps that aren't main applications get set to float
# e.g. system preferences, colour meter
yabai -m rule --add app!="^${applications}$"    manage=off border=off

BTW, I've noticed that layer and topmost settings seem to persist after being commented out -- so if you're testing anything to do with these you need to actually reset them to normal/off before commenting out/removing them, otherwise they'll just keep behaving as though nothing's changed (been tossing up creating a separate issue for this, but I'm not sure if it's worth it or not?).

[kiryph]

Further example: Ignore settings window of LibreOffice (manage=off) and set layer=above with

yabai -m rule --add app="^LibreOffice$" title="^(Delete Contents|Customize|About LibreOffice|Check for Updates|Options - LibreOffice - .+)$" manage=off layer=above

The drop down menus in the setting windows are not accessible.

[koekeishiya]

Should be resolved in latest version.