Eclipse modal windows are shown as new top level windows

[VaclavC]

I have tried to run Eclipse with Niri. If I try, for example, Ctrl+Shift+T, the new window should appear as modal over Eclipse, but it is displayed alongside. Perhaps Niri does not follow some hints from Java applications?

[nerdachse]

I have tried to run Eclipse with Niri. If I try, for example, Ctrl+Shift+T, the new window should appear as modal over Eclipse, but it is displayed alongside. Perhaps Niri does not follow some hints from Java applications?

The same is true for some IntelliJ windows (but not all) which underlines your point

[YaLTeR]

niri autofloats all new windows with a parent, or with fixed size. There are no other hints on Wayland. So this is an application issue. If these are X11, it might be something to fix in xwayland-satellite.

[VaclavC]

No, it runs as Wayland application.

[YaLTeR]

How did you check?

[VaclavC]

With xeyes ;-) ... and I configured it to do so

[YaLTeR]

I see, the old trusty method :) Well, I'm not sure then. As a workaround, you could try to window-rule it to open-floating.

[VaclavC]

Will try .. and I can try it with xwayland-satellite. I need to make some crucial apps without Wayland support working, so I need to dive into it in any case.

[VaclavC]

GIMP beta file selector or color selector window opens alongside as well ....

[YaLTeR]

Not really, but what might help is separating the SSD switch from the tiled state. You can't do that yet in niri unfortunately.

Or the server-side drop shadows, also not implemented yet

[VaclavC]

OK, it's definitely not a showstopper. And you used word 'yet', so maybe in the future this will be solved ;-)

[VaclavC]

Should I create a feature request for it?

[YaLTeR]

The is one for shadows, for the CSD thing I'll make myself

[VaclavC]

OK. Thank you!

[VaclavC]

So the proper answer here is to use Niri from Git as current release (0.1.10.1) doesn't have floating windows.