Fullscreen window loses fullscreen after opening a dialogue window

Kerfuffle
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Hi there.

On hyprland 0.56 and below:

I open a window in fullscreen, let’s say gimp. Now I choose “save as”, the dialogue opens (in fullscreen mode). Hitting Esc closes this dialogue and gimp is no longer in fullscreen mode, but tiled.

What I would expect is this:

  • The dialogue should be floating, not fullsize (so I can see the underlying fullsized gimp window)
  • gimp should stay fullsized after closing the dialogue

This would be my desired behavior.

I tried on_focus_under_fullscreen = 0, no luck.

I tried exit_window_retains_fullscreen = true. Now the gimp window gets fullscreen again. But in any other situation any window will get fullscreen, when focusing after closing a fullscreen window. That’s not, what I want.

Using hyprctl clients I can see, that gimp already loses fullscreen, when the dialogue opens (and takes over the fullscreen mode).

Any hint, how I can achieve my desired behavior?

How can I match a dialogue window of gimp (or other programs) in a window rule to force it to floating mode?

Regards

Peter
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is this exclusive to gimp? I just tried with dolphin and it works just fine

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Ah, this was the key hint for me.

Not only gimp, other programs, too. But not dolphin. Dolphin works as expected.

Then I realized, that I caused the gimp fail by myself by adding a window rule to open gimp in fullscreen mode on startup:

hl.window_rule({match = {class = "gimp"}, fullscreen = true})

This rule matches to all the dialogues, too. So even they opened fullscreen.

And this rule I have for all the programs, that as a result are not working as expected now.

Now I have to find out, how to match the main window of these programs but not their dialogues. I will try this in a few hours.

Thank you very much!

Best regards

Peter

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This is my solution. I changed my window rule from

hl.window_rule({match = {class = "gimp"}, fullscreen = true})

to

hl.window_rule({match = {class = "gimp", float = false}, fullscreen = true})

gimp starts fullscreen but not its (floating) child windows (e.g. “save as”).

This works for gimp, but even for Inkscape, Writer, Calc, Okular, Gwenview …

I could have used initialTitle instead of float, too. But float is easier and works.

So easy :slight_smile:

So thanks again to vaxry

Peter