Open Brett99 opened 6 years ago
I have lemonbar, but in my configuration I don't have such issue. Now, I am not super expert in bspwm
and xdo
, but this is what my configuration:
xdo above -t "$(xdo id -N Bspwm -n root | sort | head -n 1)" "$wid"
, where wid=$(xdo id -a "$PANEL_WM_NAME")
xdo show -d
which automatically covers my panel.I don't know if it helps. If not, please post a screenshot or something more clear.
Hi, if I don't run any xdo
commands, I do not have the shadow issue. Both of our xdo commands make it so that the shadows from monocle windows obscure the bar.
By default, it does what I want, except for the fact that fullscreen windows are obscured by the bar.
With either xdo
command, it does what I want, except for the fact that monocle shadows obscure the bar.
xdo show -d
does not seem to do anything.
I pretty much want polybar to always be infront of everything, except for fullscreen windows.
In that case, if everything is fine by default, except you do not want it to overlay full screen windows, why not just run xdo lower <polybar_window_id>
when going fullscreen and xdo raise <polybar_window_id>
when you exit fullscreen. Would that not be sufficient? Maybe calling only xdo lower <polybar_window_id>
once when it is started is already sufficient. I used to do that to work around the issue of my bar overlaying, but I am not sure how that effects your shadows.
I have lemonbar, but in my configuration I don't have such issue. Now, I am not super expert in
bspwm
andxdo
, but this is what my configuration:* I am not asking my bar to stay below a fullscreen window, but rather to stay above bspwm root: `xdo above -t "$(xdo id -N Bspwm -n root | sort | head -n 1)" "$wid"` , where `wid=$(xdo id -a "$PANEL_WM_NAME")` * If you do that, I think that the panel will be above all the windows in monocle mode and will not be obscured by their shadows. * When I go fullscreen, I use `xdo show -d` which automatically covers my panel.
I don't know if it helps. If not, please post a screenshot or something more clear.
This might be two years on but I got this working recently using
xdo lower -N "Polybar"
xdo above -N "Polybar" -t $(xdo id -N Bspwm -n root)
It was previously working with just the first line, however some update made it so that I couldn't click on the polybar items any more which the second line fixed.
Setting wm-restack = bspwm
in polybar's config seems to fix this
I apologize if this is not a bspwm issue.
I have polybar on the bottom of my screen, and it is always visible, except for when a window is in fullscreen. The fullscreen window covers polybar because I set it to be behind it with
xdo below -t $(xdo id -n root) $(xdo id -a polybar-main_HDMI-3)
. This currently does what I want, which is for polybar to always be visible unless there is a fullscreen window covering it. I also never want polybar to cover up the bottom of a window.The only issue is that if I have many windows open in monocle mode, the shadows (drawn by compton) cover up polybar and obscure the text.
To fix the shadow issue, I could move polybar to the top using xdo, but then fullscreen windows would be obscured by polybar.
Is there a way to stop polybar from obscuring fullscreen windows, while still keeping it above all other windows so no shadows are drawn on top of it?