Support for Gtk.Window.set_position() and/or Gtk.Window.move()

[nwg-piotr]

I know we have the Place plugin, but when it's turned off, it would be great to be able to affect the window position programmatically, e.g. window.set_position(Gtk.WindowPosition.MOUSE). Or at least to move it to desired coordinates with window.move(x, y). Could it be considered?

[soreau]

This could be added to the place plugin, a match with position, or it could be added to window-rules plugin.

[nwg-piotr]

The place plugin affects all the windows. The ideal solution would be if it worked as it does, unless the window placement is forced with the set_position or move method.

[soreau]

I didn't realize you meant from client-side gtk.. These work without place plugin enabled already? Can you provide some example client/gtk code that does what you expect?

[soreau]

Also, do these functions work in gnome wayland shell?

[nwg-piotr]

Haha! I haven't seen GNOME for over 2 years :))) No idea. On X11 it works, AFAIK.

Out of boredom I started working on a gadget like this: https://youtu.be/mMdkhjKs9ug It looks not bad centered, but e.g. on Openbox I can attach it to a tint2 button, and it opens in the mouse pointer position, which gives a GNOME-like look and feel. It would be not bad to have the same behevior on Wayfire + Waybar.

Code: https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwgcc

[soreau]

Haha! I haven't seen GNOME for over 2 years :))) No idea. On X11 it works, AFAIK.

Out of boredom I started working on a gadget like this: https://youtu.be/mMdkhjKs9ug It looks not bad centered, but e.g. on Openbox I can attach it to a tint2 button, and it opens in the mouse pointer position, which gives a GNOME-like look and feel. It would be not bad to have the same behevior on Wayfire + Waybar.

Code: https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwgcc

Wow, this is awesome! I will try building it now.

[nwg-piotr]

Thanks! I'm not sure if setup.py is all right. Haven't yet tried packaging it.

[nwg-piotr]

For sure you'd need commands: upower or acpi, iwgeitd, light and also systemctl and python-pyalsa in your system. This is still a work in progress, only tested on Arch Linux.

[soreau]

Thanks! I will file an issue there if I have trouble.

[ammen99]

This is really impossible on Wayland. Clients do not know their position and should not be able to change it. The only exception so far are layer-shell surfaces.

You could use window-rules to create per-window placement rules.

[nwg-piotr]

Out of curiosity I installed GNOME on my testing laptop. Both methods only work on the Xorg session.

[soreau]

@nwg-piotr With #912 and this WIP plugin (applies to latest wayfire-plugins-extra), right-click on gtk apps' titlebars runs nwgcc and positions it. If you add self.set_decorated(False) in the MyWindow class of nwgcc, it will be undecorated by the plugin. The addition of --name=nwgcc sets the app_id.

[nwg-piotr]

Will it be enough to build everything from master? [edit] and apply the patch?