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mijorus / smile

An emoji picker for linux, with custom tags support and localization. I'll also put some random emojis here 🦁🐾🦔🦇
https://mijorus.it/projects/smile
GNU General Public License v3.0
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[Feature] Position window at mouse location #34

Closed joenepraat closed 1 year ago

joenepraat commented 1 year ago

First thank you for this great application!

Would it be possible to position the window at the mouse location? Right now it's always positioned in the top left corner.

mijorus commented 1 year ago

Hi @joenepraat , I tried, but this feature is unreliable as it is up to the Window Manager to decide where windows will be place. Furthermore, it's completely ignored on wayland.

Please do a quick online search on how to change the default position of new windows for your distribution. If you are using GNOME, the best you can do is setting "center new windows" to TRUE with GNOME tweaks.

I'm sorry

joenepraat commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip @mijorus. That makes it a bit more bearable.

I first used a similar app called Emote, but for various reasons I now use your app. Emote positions itself under the mouse cursor, but maybe that only works because I use X11 (under Ubuntu 22.04, Gnome 42) like you said.

mijorus commented 1 year ago

Emote is written with GTK3, which used to have this feature.

Smile 1.0 had this feature as well, but i decided to remove it after the libadwaita rewrite, because it is unsupported by gtk4.

There are workarounds on x11, but I don't feel like it worth the effort.

If you really really really want, you can still use the last 1.x release https://github.com/mijorus/smile/releases/tag/1.7.3

Please just make sure to uninstall the current version first.

joenepraat commented 1 year ago

Ok clear. No I prefer the 2.* release. So I will keep using your center tip.

Thanks for all the quick replies.

Emote is written with GTK3, which used to have this feature.

Smile 1.0 had this feature as well, but i decided to remove after the libadwaita rewrite, because it is unsupported by gtk4.

There are workarounds on x11, but I don't feel like it worth the effort.

If you really really really want, you can still use the last 1.x release https://github.com/mijorus/smile/releases/tag/1.7.3

Please just make sure to uninstall the current version first.