Why widgets are on the top of every window?

[senkux]

Isn't there any way to set widgets to the bottom of every window?

Also how to set widgets to be appear at only one particular workspace?

I'm on xfce

[oldwomanjosiah]

As for 1, if you are looking to have your widgets stack like a dock or toolbar (like polybar) and are using x11 you are going to want to set your windowtype to dock, or leave it unset while setting some reserve.

(defwindow bottom-bar
  :reserve (struts :distance "45px" :side "bottom")
  :geometry (geometry :anchor "bottom center")
  :vexpand "false"
  :stacking "fg"
  (child-widgets))

I don't currently use wayland, so I'm not sure exactly, but I think you can skip the reserve and just set exclusive to true instead.

• x11
• wayland

As for 2, I don't believe that there is a wm-agnostic way to do this (on x at least) if it is at all possible. I am only able to test with i3 (on x11) at this time, but none of the window types keep the window on the same workspace.

[mantacid]

Regarding rendering widgets behind other windows: Try using :wm-ignore true and :stacking “bg”

As for the other question, you could try to make a script that detects what virtual desktop you’re on, then poll that in yuck & use it to set visibility.

[mantacid]

Also set the window type. That’s important too.

[elkowar]

On X, stacking windows into the background is more or less completely broken currently, as noone has been able to figure out why it doesn't work. There's one or two issues open regarding this problem, too, follow those for more details