lxqt

[johanmalm]

Things to fix in general:

• Window-rule property skipInteractiveMoveResize fixedPosition
• dnd: refocus surface under cursor on drag-destroy #940
• Remove 60px hard-coded min-height
• Hide always-on-top layer when running an application in full-screen. See conversation here: Add <margin> and MoveTo in support of lxqt-panel #947 (comment)

In support of lxqt-panel

• MoveTo action (Add <margin> and MoveTo in support of lxqt-panel #947)
• <margin> (Add <margin> and MoveTo in support of lxqt-panel #947)
• matchOnce property to only apply rules to panel rather than configuration windows with the same app_id (Add <margin> and MoveTo in support of lxqt-panel #947)

In support of lxqt-notificationd

• Window-rule property allowFocusRequest in support of <windowRule identifier="lxqt-notificationd" skipTaskbar="yes" skipWindowSwitcher="yes" allowFocusRequst="no">

[stefonarch]

For notifications some kind of <windowRule identifier="lxqt-notificationd" skipTaskbar="yes" skipWindowSwitcher="yes" nofocus="yes"> rule would be needed.

[stefonarch]

In support of lxqt-panel

Just started using gaps and the panel is affected by it, so a gap="no" maybe needed.

[Consolatis]

That might somewhat complicate the codebase. Just thinking out loud, maybe we could instead add an optional argument to MoveToEdge which ignores the gap. I am not sure which variant is less disruptive.

[stefonarch]

Sure, on the long run the panel will hopefully have the necessary code when layer-shell-qt becomes usable.
Just noticed that using "region="top" gives no gap, the only downside is that the config window follows this rule too. Didn't fiddle with "bottom" though. Nope, had gap=0 in rc.xml

[johanmalm]

In support of lxqt-panel

Just started using gaps and the panel is affected by it, so a gap="no" maybe needed.

Yes, I had noticed the regions/gap interaction. Also, regions currently only take a % argument, so not quite right atm.
I envisaged a simple MoveTo (which doesn't take into account gaps) as suggested in Original Post. Thoughts?

[stefonarch]

This sounds good. Using "regions" has also the downside that it affects the config window.

[stefonarch]

Some checkboxes can be ticked. The 60px rule could stay as it doesn't matter anymore, a bottom panel can be placed with <action name="MoveTo" x="0" y="x"/> with x = screen height - panel height, although all popups open at screen border so it's anyway not really usable.

[stefonarch]

Hide always-on-top layer when running an application in full-screen.

Nonetheless I knew that for a panel "layer-bottom+exclusive zone" is the best combination I never tested it until today. It works perfectly, although 2 applications are on the bottom layer (panel and pcmanf-qt's desktop) the panel stays above the desktop always as the latter respects "margin-top".

So "nofocus" rule is the last missing piece: #1057

[stefonarch]

In support of lxqt-notificationd

This can be removed as in LXQt 2.0 all components which need layershell have it built it.

Remove 60px hard-coded min-height

I don't remember exactly but with margin= it was no issue anymore.

Hide always-on-top layer when running an application in full-screen.

lxqt-panel 2.0 uses mLayerWindow->setLayer(LayerShellQt::Window::LayerTop); and using F11 on other applications or fullscreen youtube video the panel is hidden, so this looks solved somewhere.
Thanks a lot for the given support of LXQt 1.x . !

[johanmalm]

Thanks @stefonarch
Have updated OP. Closing.