Is it possible to offset hints?

[s-atwood]

I wanted to know if there are any configuration options other then the ones provided on the configuration guide that will allow me to offset the hints more to the left/right? As of now, the hints cover the buttons, making it difficult to see what is under the hint. I have to look at what I would want to click first and where it's positioned first before triggering hints. Any help provided would be appreciated.

[romanchyla]

i don't know about offset, but would suggest: playing with transparency settings, and making sure at-spi is installed/configured properly -- it generates fewer boxes than opencv -- which helps a lot

[AlfredoSequeida]

Yes, there some options that I think are documented, but only in specific parts:

What you want is this one for x offsets:

hints/hints/constants.py

Line 105 in e5739a5

"overlay_x_offset": 0,

And this for y offsets:

hints/hints/constants.py

Line 106 in e5739a5

"overlay_y_offset": 0,

But I think this might not be what you want as this offsets the whole overlay. But give it a try anyways.

The reason the button is covered now is because I chose to intentionally center hints here:

hints/hints/huds/overlay.py

Line 146 in e5739a5

hint_x_offset = child.width / 2 - hint_width / 2

and here:

hints/hints/huds/overlay.py

Line 147 in e5739a5

hint_y_offset = child.height / 2 - hint_height / 2

It would not be very hard to add a new config option to disable centering hints. Adding a condition to skip centering hints there would align hints to the top left of objects.

For reference, here are all of the config options available:

hints/hints/constants.py

Line 15 in e5739a5

DEFAULT_CONFIG = {