Feature Request: automatically set positioning to floating on cinnamon

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Feature Request: automatically set positioning to floating on cinnamon

Closed this issue 9 months ago · 6 comments

To prevent #299 and #98 in future, would it be possible to detect if the Discover Overlay is run on cinnamon to automatically switch to floating?

Answer 1 · 2024-03-13T20:36:26.000Z

This might be a potential fix. It would need a sensible way to find out if the user is on cinnamon...

Could you please provide the output of env | grep XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP
I'm hoping that will be enough to work off of

Answer 2 · 2024-03-13T21:19:34.000Z

$ env | grep XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=cinnamon

Answer 3 · 2024-03-13T21:28:11.000Z

Ah I hoped so!

Yep I'll look into this then

Answer 4 · 2024-03-13T21:49:21.000Z

It's not the prettiest, but it will ignore 'edge' choice in cinnamon desktop now.

To really call this fixed we probably need a way to explain this to new users

Answer 5 · 2024-03-14T00:00:34.000Z

Next step could be disabling the anchored radio box in the settings UI.
I don't program in python, otherwise I'd help you with that...
Thanks for the workaround though.

Answer 6 · 2024-03-25T17:44:29.000Z

That's done too. I'll close for now as this shouldn't cause further issue.