[BUG] Rofi being drawn under fullscreen window

[AndreaOrru]

Version

Version: 1.6.0-49-g74a157c6 (makepkg)

Configuration

https://paste.debian.net/hidden/6d72e681/

Launch Command

rofi -show drun

Steps to reproduce

• Make a window full screen.
• Launch rofi through a key binding.

What behaviour you see

• Rofi stays hidden under the fullscreen window.

What behaviour you expect to see

• Rofi is drawn as an overlay on top of the fullscreen window.

[Xyene]

rofi draws on ZWLR_LAYER_SHELL_V1_LAYER_TOP, which renders under fullscreen views (swaywm/sway#3057). I believe ZWLR_LAYER_SHELL_V1_LAYER_OVERLAY needs to be used to go over fullscreen views. mako for instance offers the layer as a config option.

The current behavior was added in #7. (It's unclear to me how rofi can get triggered from the lockscreen, since the lockscreen should be capturing all input.)

[lbonn]

Thanks for the clarification, I suspected something like that.
Not showing on top of full screen windows seems indeed worse than showing on top of lock screens, so I'll probably revert that.

Adding the layer as a config option is maybe another good approach.

[lbonn]

Reverted now

[travankor]

The current behavior was added in #7. (It's unclear to me how rofi can get triggered from the lockscreen, since the lockscreen should be capturing all input.)

rofi -show run &; sleep 1; swaylock
Or wait for swayidle to lock while rofi is around.

See also: swaywm/swaylock#107

Also, I believe wofi and bemenu have TOP as default. Otherwise, you could technically execute an arbitrary command while the launcher is focused (despite being locked).

[markstos]

I'm in favor of rofi appearing on top of full-screen apps.

With sway, you have to explicitly add --locked to a bindsym directive to allow a shortcut to launch an app on the lockscreen. I don't see anyone would set Rofi to be launched over the lockscreen. If they do, well then they explicitity meant to do that.