Open panel at cursor position

[SUPERCILEX]

From Tudmotu/gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator#110

[SUPERCILEX]

Found a way to do this for the mouse pointer, but not the cursor:

const actor = this.menu.actor;
let [x, y] = global.get_pointer();

if (x + actor.width > global.stage.width) {
  x -= actor.width;
}
if (y + actor.height > global.stage.height) {
  y -= actor.height;
}

actor.set_position(x, y);

[rohmishra]

@SUPERCILEX I wonder if the accessibility features could be useful place to check but the IME OSK does recognize if the text input would be covered by the popup I guess by checking against height?

[rohmishra]

It checks the size of the whole window not the text space. Sorry; my bad. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/blob/main/js/ui/keyboard.js#L634

Ideally the menu being next to text input area would be ideal but cursor would be the next best thing as you can quickly select the desired option.

[SUPERCILEX]

I tried the mouse thing and ended up not liking it because the mouse wasn't in a predictable place. I'd be willing to add it behind an option, but I haven't figured out how to make set_position work reliably (right now it only works if the top bar is hidden).

[LubosRemplik]

👍

[orta]

My previous clipboard manager would show the window in the center of the screen, which is also a pretty reasonable answer to making it trivial to find

[LubosRemplik]

My previous clipboard manager would show the window in the center of the screen, which is also a pretty reasonable answer to making it trivial to find

Exactly. with 5120 x 1440 screen i am using, set option to center position would be perfect

Tried to adjust things and compile myself, but no luck yet :)

[ruby232]

Was this feature implemented? I couldn't find it in the code, so I created my fork, and it seems to be working fine. Would you like me to create a merge request for this?

[SUPERCILEX]

Sure, I'd love to take a look (no guarantees I'll merge though).

[ruby232]

It only works when Guake is open, that's very strange but it doesn't throw any errors or warnings.

[TimFaro]

Any chance that this could be added? I'd be happy to have the window open in the center of the screen or be movable so it can be placed somewhere more convenient, I have two monitors and it's a bit tedious right now, otherwise it's the best clipboard manager imo