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[Feature Request] & bug report "Always on top" option in right-click menu on applications on panel #9416

Open Butterfly1984 opened 4 years ago

Butterfly1984 commented 4 years ago

Linux Mint 20.0 Cinnamon 4 monitors resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz - 1920x1080~60Hz - 1920x1080~60Hz - 1920x1080~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.100

Issue Feature request: Certain applications can't be set "Always on top" easily (applications without titlebar like firefox and quite some games.)

Bug report: Alt+Space does work to enable "Always on top" for both firefox and games. The checkmark is enabled, but once clicking on another monitor, games go minimized to panel instantly.

Expected behaviour Feature request: On panel, when right-clicking an application, add the option "Always on top", like is available when right-clicking titlebar.

Bug report: "Always on top" to actually work for games as well.

xenopeek commented 4 years ago

As workaround you can press Alt+Space which toggles the window menu to be shown for the active window and you can toggle Always on Top from there. This also works on windows without a titlebar:

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Alternatively you can set a keyboard shortcut for Always on Top through System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts:

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Butterfly1984 commented 4 years ago

As workaround you can press Alt+Space which toggles the window menu to be shown for the active window and you can toggle Always on Top from there. This also works on windows without a titlebar

Indeed a great work around for firefox, but doesn't work for games. (tested this with CS:GO) The feature Alt+Space on itself, to enable Always-On-Top does work, I can enable "Always on top" by the method you mentioned perfectly, but once I click on another monitor, the game goes minimized to panel.

So it's not just a feature request, I guess this is also a bug report in some way. Always on top, even when enabled, doesn't work for certain applications (mainly games it seems so far from my personal experience).