widget is windowed instead of begin on the upper layer on hyprland

[its-darsh]

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Info

• OS: ArchLinux
• Kernel: 6.4.7-arch1-2
• WM: Hyprland (built from git)

Used example from the wiki, this issue is completely random and it happens to me with eww sometimes as well, Example sometime worky sometime not
I'm not sure if this is a wlroots issue or ags issue...

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Logs

(ags:349369): Gtk-WARNING **: 06:55:11.914: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:6703:68: Invalid name of pseudo-class

** (ags:349369): CRITICAL **: 06:55:11.973: gtk_wayland_init_if_needed: assertion 'GDK_IS_WAYLAND_DISPLAY (gdk_display)' failed

** (ags:349369): CRITICAL **: 06:55:11.973: layer_surface_new: assertion 'gtk_wayland_get_layer_shell_global ()' failed

** (ags:349369): WARNING **: 06:55:11.973: Falling back to XDG shell instead of Layer Shell (surface should appear but layer features will not work)

** (ags:349369): CRITICAL **: 06:55:11.973: xdg_toplevel_surface_new: assertion 'gtk_wayland_get_xdg_wm_base_global ()' failed

** (ags:349369): WARNING **: 06:55:11.973: Shell does not support XDG shell stable. Falling back to default GTK behavior

** (ags:349369): CRITICAL **: 06:55:11.973: GtkWindow is not a layer surface. Make sure you called gtk_layer_init_for_window ()

** (ags:349369): CRITICAL **: 06:55:11.973: GtkWindow is not a layer surface. Make sure you called gtk_layer_init_for_window ()

** (ags:349369): CRITICAL **: 06:55:11.973: GtkWindow is not a layer surface. Make sure you called gtk_layer_init_for_window ()

** (ags:349369): CRITICAL **: 06:55:11.973: GtkWindow is not a layer surface. Make sure you called gtk_layer_init_for_window ()

** (ags:349369): CRITICAL **: 06:55:11.973: GtkWindow is not a layer surface. Make sure you called gtk_layer_init_for_window ()

** (ags:349369): CRITICAL **: 06:55:11.973: GtkWindow is not a layer surface. Make sure you called gtk_layer_init_for_window ()

** (ags:349369): CRITICAL **: 06:55:11.973: GtkWindow is not a layer surface. Make sure you called gtk_layer_init_for_window ()

** (ags:349369): CRITICAL **: 06:55:11.973: GtkWindow is not a layer surface. Make sure you called gtk_layer_init_for_window ()

(ags:349369): Gjs-WARNING **: 06:55:11.990: JS ERROR: Gtk.CssProviderError: <broken file>:1:0Failed to import: Error opening file /home/darsh/.config/ags/style.css: No such file or directory
applyCss@resource:///com/github/Aylur/ags/app.js:52:21
_load@resource:///com/github/Aylur/ags/app.js:138:21
async*vfunc_activate@resource:///com/github/Aylur/ags/app.js:75:14
_init/GLib.MainLoop.prototype.runAsync/</<@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/GLib.js:266:34

[its-darsh]

well, the widget seems to be running on Xwayland for some reason...

[its-darsh]

it works now :3

[Jappie3]

For anyone stumbling on this in the future: I also had this problem when ags was launched by Hyprland on startup. When launching it manually later, it was not windowed but overlayed correctly as a bar. Setting the env var WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 before launching solved the problem, e.g. like this (in your Hyprland config): exec=WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 ags.