Woomer breaks tiling of fullscreen / maximized windows

[imnotpoz]

opening woomer on a workspace with a fullscreen / maximized window un-fullscreens it - after closing woomer they're back to normal tiling

not sure how to fix this, it'd be great if you found a way

[coffeeispower]

This is a thing I think I can't really fix because woomer opens a fullscreen window and you can't have 2 fullscreen windows on the same workspace.

[imnotpoz]

one idea I had was to check if the active window's fullscreen is true, if that's the case fullscreening it again after the woomer window is closed but that's really hacky

what about making woomer a layer_surface?

[coffeeispower]

I'm not sure if glfw supports opening layers instead of windows.
The only way this could be done is if i can convert the glfw window into a layer somehow

[Shinyzenith]

To fix this issue, would you accept a pr that optionally creates a egl backend from scratch with layer shell?

[coffeeispower]

@Shinyzenith I'm not sure because that would conflict with #9 , i would prefer to keep raylib, but if it has to be done i wouldn't mind too much losing support for a niche operating system for video games because the main focus of this project is wayland.

But that would require to literally rewrite woomer from scratch... And maybe increase the amount of code from a few hundreds to probably a thousand lines.

It seems also that gnome doesn't support the layer protocol sooo...

This makes me think about if it's worth missing out a lot on compatibility for just not making fullscreen apps get out of fullscreen mode when woomer is opened, you can just put the application back in fullscreen mode

[coffeeispower]

Let's see if raysan says something on my issue, i really hope so

[coffeeispower]

Got an idea, i can pull up the glfw window handle from raylib, than pull the wayland surface and then convert it into a layer, what do you think? do you think this will work?

[Shinyzenith]

I am unsure...I'll test out my PoC before I speak further

[coffeeispower]

We got good news, it seems like raysan would accept a PR adding support for layer surfaces on raylib: raysan5/raylib#4009 (comment)
So fortunately we will have this issue fixed!

[nouritsu]

@coffeeispower I am working on said PR, I have had some luck.

Here is a demo of woomer made to use the locally modified raylib. I'm not too sure why the namespace is blank, but the full-screen behaviour confirms that woomer is being spawned on the overlay layer.

I'll open a PR to raylib once I polish out my solution.