Configurable Window features 'Always on top' and 'Exclude from Overview'

[Henry78]

Add an options to the settings menu and make this window properties configurable:

• 'Always on top'
• 'Exclude from Overview/Taskbar'

Use case: My desired workflow is to bring up the terminal using the hotkey when needed, switch between different application with alt-tab and then hide the terminal with the hotkey again.

Stretch goal: Have the terminal in the overwiew and accessible by alt-tab only while it's visible.

[diegodario88]

Add an options to the settings menu and make this window properties configurable:

* 'Always on top'

It's already done in the main branch. ✅

* 'Exclude from Overview/Taskbar'

Use case: My desired workflow is to bring up the terminal using the hotkey when needed, switch between different application with alt-tab and then hide the terminal with the hotkey again.

If I'm getting this right, you can achieve this by disabling auto-hide, switching between different windows applications with Alt-Tab, and simply using the hotkey to bring up the terminal when needed, pressing it again to hide it.

[petre2dor]

Hi @diegodario88 , I tried setting up the main branch (with the goal of doing some development), but I encountered an issue when trying to open the settings: Error: GSettings key always-on-top not found in schema org.gnome.shell.extensions.quake-terminal

My steps in testing the app on X11 were:

• clone the repo
• copy the files to extensions: cp -R quake-terminal@diegodario88.github.io ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
• enable the extension: gnome-extensions enable example@gjs.guide
• restart X11: ALT+F2, then type restart and press Enter I tried setting it up on Wayland and I encountered the same issue.

And a bit of a tangent, if you could document your dev setup and workflow, it would help a lot onboarding newcomers like myself.

Anyway, thank you for sharing your work :)

[diegodario88]

Hey @petre2dor, I appreciate you bringing that issue to my attention. I've just pushed an update commit that should resolve it.

Have you given the manual installation method, as outlined in the readme, a try? This is the process I use for building and testing my changes. One thing that differs from your setup is that I'm running on Wayland, so I occasionally need to either log out and log back in or run a nested session like this:

env GNOME_SHELL_SLOWDOWN_FACTOR=2 MUTTER_DEBUG_DUMMY_MODE_SPECS=1920x1280 dbus-run-session -- gnome-shell --nested --wayland

Let me know if you encounter any issues or if there's anything else I can assist you with.

[petre2dor]

Thanks for the quick fix @diegodario88! I was able to test it, but the nested session is not very usable(I cannot always start a terminal), so had to logout and log back in.

Best regards :)

[Henry78]

If I'm getting this right, you can achieve this by disabling auto-hide, switching between different windows applications with Alt-Tab, and simply using the hotkey to bring up the terminal when needed, pressing it again to hide it.

Yes, but I'd like the terminal to show up in the Alt-Tab list, so I'm able to Alt-Tab back to the terminal. I suppose showing in Alt-Tab list will also show the Terminal window in the Overview, I personally don't care about that.

Thanks for implementing the option to disable always-on-top. 🙏🏼

[yukijoou]

commenting because i'd like to have hide from overview and hide from alt-tab too.

seems like the quake-mode extension had this feature, though it's not been updated to the latest gnome version unfortunately :c

seems like that's how they got it to work, maybe a similar feature could be implemented here :)

[diegodario88]

Hi there, @yukijoou!

Could you do us a favor and give the version on the main branch a try to see if it meets your needs?

Your feedback would be much appreciated! Thanks!

[yukijoou]

hi, thanks for the swift response! it does seem to work! at first it seemed bugged, but toggling the option on and off again made it behave as expected!

thank you so much :)

[yukijoou]

reporting back: it seems like if i kill the application running in quake-terminal and re-start it, i need to uncheck-recheck the setting for it to hide the window again - would be neat if that was done automatically

[diegodario88]

could you provide some evidence? Everything is works as expected in here

[Henry78]

Tetsted with GNOME Terminal: Works very well, had no issues.

[diegodario88]

I'm going to close this for the moment, but please don't hesitate to reopen.