Overlapped results

[moshpirit]

Sometimes I get overlapped results.

This is an example, with browsing a website with Firefox:

And this is thunar:

This is my config file:

{
  "hints": {
    "hint_height": 20,
    "hint_width_padding": 5,
    "hint_font_size": 15,
    "hint_font_face": "Sans",
    "hint_font_r": 0,
    "hint_font_g": 0,
    "hint_font_b": 0,
    "hint_font_a": 1,
    "hint_pressed_font_r": 0.5,
    "hint_pressed_font_g": 0.5,
    "hint_pressed_font_b": 0.2,
    "hint_pressed_font_a": 1,
    "hint_upercase": false,
    "hint_background_r": 1,
    "hint_background_g": 1,
    "hint_background_b": 0.5,
    "hint_background_a": 0.6
  }
}

[tmadfouni]

Just to add to this, I get a very similar issue when working within a file explorer

[AlfredoSequeida]

Hello, thank you for noting this. I have seen this as well. I'm not sure how much we can do to fix this. Essentially this depends on the application itself. So if the application has multiple elements that are accessible within that area, then they will both show up.

One way to solve this on a per-application basis for the Atspi Backend by setting rules.

This is how you set Atspi rules: https://github.com/AlfredoSequeida/hints/wiki/Configuration-guide#atspi-backend
This is how you do it on a per-application basis: https://github.com/AlfredoSequeida/hints/wiki/Configuration-guide#how-do-i-set-rules-on-a-per-application-basis

For example, maybe you are seeing some sort of "container" object like a list and the that list contains list items. So you would want to create a rule for that app to ommit lists. This way the list (container) element is not matched, but the list items are.

Let me know if you have any questions.

[matejdro]

One solution for this would be implementing a way to cycle between overlapping hints. For example, vimium browser extension uses spacebar for that.

That way you would be able to pick up on the overlapping hints in the background, pressing space (or whatever shortcut would be mapped to this) would bring them into the foreground

[AlfredoSequeida]

@matejdro I didn't even know that was a feature in Vimium! That sounds like a good solution. I'll leave this open as a possible future improvement as time is available.

[AlfredoSequeida]

This has been implemented and is still being tested. More info here: #103 (comment)

[AlfredoSequeida]

Feature merged and released in https://github.com/AlfredoSequeida/hints/releases/tag/0.1.1