window-switcher from noctalia

[witchlliee]

Basically noctalia has a window switcher which uses foreign-toplevel (privileged protocol) to show open windows but it doesn't show any on Jay even tho I gave noctalia full capatibilities access:

[[clients]]
match.comm = "noctalia"
capabilities = "all"

https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia/blob/main/src/shell/switcher/window_switcher.cpp

Not sure what I'm missing to have this feature gain access to the protocol needed.

[mahkoh]

There is no protocol for noctalia to know which windows are on the current workspace.

[witchlliee]

Oh, I was afraid of this. I really like having a window switcher but that is okay, I guess

[witchlliee]

Somehow it still looks some basic things don't work but Jay supports the needed protocols for them. Maybe I need to give privileges for more noctalia parts? It's very confusing since I never used a compositor that needs to give privileges for clients to use certain protocols.

[mahkoh]

There is no privilege that would allow noctalia to associate toplevels with workspaces. You can associate toplevels with outputs, but that's it.

[nabajour]

There is no privilege that would allow noctalia to associate toplevels with workspaces. You can associate toplevels with outputs, but that's it.

Could that be the same reason I can't get noctalia to show me the windows from the current workspace in the task manager ? No wayland protocol for this? I'm trying to understand and have researched a bit, and it seems that compositors and bars that can do this implemented their own version of a protocol or some IPC ?

[mahkoh]

Yes. Noctalia seems to use per-compositor code to implement this.