Use popups as toast notifcations?

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Use popups as toast notifcations? #4032

Closed Garulf closed 2 weeks ago

Garulf commented 1 month ago

I have been improving my workflow using tmux's awesome display-popup and display-menu command. Would it be possible to have an option for a popup menu to not steal focus? This would allow for some cool use cases like toast notifications.

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nicm commented 1 month ago

I think it would be possible for popups not to steal key presses from the panes now that they do not block redrawing, but I don't know how difficult it would be. Look at the overlay section in server_client_handle_key, I would start by disabling that and see if it works, if it does then you would need to add a flag to say "this is noninteractive overlay".