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fennerm / flashfocus

Simple focus animations for tiling window managers.
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Effect not applied to fullscreen window #55

Closed isti115 closed 3 years ago

isti115 commented 3 years ago

Probably the most often occurring cause of losing track of the active window for me is when I have something on full screen, thus it does not have a border to help distinguish it, so I was hoping that this nice little program could help me solve this, but as far as my experiences show, in sway (1.5) invoking flash_window has no effect on full screen programs. (I bound it to a key, which works otherwise.)

Edit: I've just noticed that there is an option in the config file for flash-fullscreen, but the default value is true and still, nothing happens.

fennerm commented 3 years ago

Hi @Isti115, yep seems like a bug, thanks for reporting. Looking into it.

fennerm commented 3 years ago

Unfortunately this looks to be due to a sway design decision @Isti115 - https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/3624#issuecomment-461910064. I don't think this behavior is fixable without radically changing how flashfocus works.

I'll update flashfocus to emit a warning in this scenario.