[How I did it with video demo] [Feature] Option to remove overlay so only buttons show. works well without a compositor

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Demo video showing what it looks like

Read the first comment it has a link to a video on youtube showing you how to do it

or here is the link if you re lazy

https://youtu.be/uBM5zD7gHps

the vid is 22mb it's 3min or 2min . I tried to include it here but it didn't work. upload failed in here in this post so I uploaded it on yotube only you who have the link can see it.

I hope this is added as a feature.

When I get good I'll change this goodnight-mouse

the solutsion was provided by ai and tested by me it works.

Descriptions of what I want

[Feature] Please add a way in the config to change if the buttons are displayed always capital or not

as stated in the title.

the keys are hard to see especially for c and o.... those keys are hard to see but when they are cpaital when Capslock is on <--- hit win+g then turn cpaslock on.

(do not turn capslock on the nhit win+g that's win+G and goodnight mouse doesn't understand that)

it shows the keys in capital and that's beautiful they are easy to see.

this thing I've discribed here is what's adopted in trydactily

trydactyle

gggg
GGG

regardless if I have capslock on or off... while in goodnight mouse

see

I have to either hold shift to make them bigger or make capslock on.

for now I'm using this

[gitdexgit]

demo To changing the overlay so it works well without compositor

here is a demo:

https://youtu.be/uBM5zD7gHps

steps

1. clone the repo and go to

2. src/app/foreground/overlay.c

3. find the static void overlay_refresh(Overlay *overlay) function.

4. replace it with this

// repositions the overlay window and all its tags AND SETS THE WINDOW SHAPE
static void overlay_refresh(Overlay *overlay)
{
    // do nothing if not shown
    if (!overlay->window)
        return;

    // reposition the overlay window first
    overlay_reposition(overlay);

    // Create a new, empty region that will become the visible shape
    cairo_region_t *visible_region = cairo_region_create();

    // Iterate through all tags to show them and add their shape to our region
    GHashTableIter iter;
    gpointer tag_ptr, null_ptr;
    g_hash_table_iter_init(&iter, overlay->tags);
    while (g_hash_table_iter_next(&iter, &tag_ptr, &null_ptr))
    {
        Tag *tag = tag_ptr;

        // Show the individual tag
        tag_show(tag, GTK_LAYOUT(overlay->container), overlay->window_x, overlay->window_y);

        // Get the tag's size and position (allocation)
        GtkAllocation allocation;
        gtk_widget_get_allocation(tag->label, &allocation);

        // Create a rectangle from the tag's allocation
        cairo_rectangle_int_t tag_rect = {
            .x = allocation.x,
            .y = allocation.y,
            .width = allocation.width,
            .height = allocation.height
        };

        // Add the tag's rectangle to our combined visible region
        cairo_region_union_rectangle(visible_region, &tag_rect);
    }

    // Apply the combined region as the shape for the main overlay window
    gdk_window_shape_combine_region(gtk_widget_get_window(overlay->overlay), visible_region, 0, 0);

    // Clean up the region object
    cairo_region_destroy(visible_region);

    // Finally, show the overlay window with its new shape
    gtk_widget_show_all(overlay->overlay);
}