[BUG] -click-to-exit not working about rofi

[lbonn]

Indeed, that's difficult to implement as is, as pointer events outside of the target surface are not sent by design in wayland.

It could maybe work if we'd reserve a layer covering the complete screen but only show the rofi window in a limited area. This way, we'd get mouse events anywhere. But that sounds a bit hacky and may be tricky with multi-monitors...

Another trick (maybe) would be to add an option to exit on pointer leave (in wl_pointer_listener) and have your compositor focus on click. Also weird

Otherwise, I think it would need some additional supports in protocols or compositor-specific.

I'll leave the bug open in case somebody has a great idea for this.

Another idea (deviates a bit from standard rofi): optionally make the #window clickable, use the mainbox for actual content (that's how I do it to get a nice fullscreen overlay behind the actual "menu")

window:
  background-color: "#YONICE"
  children: "[mainbox]"
  fullscreen: true
  padding: 0 80% 0 0      # <------ use this for positioning instead of rofi's anchors 

mainbox:
  background-color: "#D000D3"
  children: "[this, and, that]"
  expand: true

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[Visne]

Wouldn't the best way to do this be to steal the focus and then automatically close rofi when focus is lost (I assume Wayland apps can know that they lost focus)?

[Nemo157]

At least on hyprland it looks like rofi is getting the mouse events always, I guess because it's the only app on the overlay layer.