Hello everyone, I’m trying to solve a problem with a floating window by making a windowrule. It turns out I can solve the issue ((but imperfectly) by maximizing the floating window, but not by setting size 100%, 100%. What is the difference between the two? The issue is that the floating window is a text input box which has list of suggestions hanging under it. The list only becomes visible if I set the window to maximize, not if I set the size to 100%, 100%. Hence my question: what is the difference?
There shouldn’t be any difference that would prevent the list from showing up. Is it possible for you to share what app it is so we can test?
This is the Zotero extension in Libreoffice. Zotero is a reference manager, and with the libreoffice extension you can insert citations into documents. With the text box you search for entries in the collection of references. I’ve tried to upload a picture but I think the file is too big, I’ll try a lower quality picture.
So the one at the top is not maximized, and it shows just the text box floating over the libreoffice document. The one below is maximized via a windowrule, and it shows the list of suggestions, as it should. And the drawback of that method is that the maximized window is too big for the text box and list. Setting the size to 100%, 100%, or any other size, does not do anything.
is it running in xwayland? I’ve heard about this thing before IIRC and how broken it is in general…
No, it runs in wayland nowadays. From what I understand, it is built on firefox code, and it inherits whatever issues firefox has with wayland (or xorg). Perhaps that’s part of the problem, although I have no issues with firefox on wayland generally. Anyway, a mahor update is on the way (built on a newer version of firefox), and hopefully that will solve the problem. It’s a minor problem anyway. Thanks for looking into this.