Floating windows do not maintain position

[Rahul Garg]

Unless I have a misconfiguration, I cannot seem to get persistent positioning for floating windows. This should be relatively straightforward to reproduce.

I have attached my dkrc and sxhkdrc for reference (specifically line#86 in dkrc which sets the rule for Pavucontrol).

The expectation is that pavucontrol should always open at the specified location. It would be even better if I could specify something like:

dkcmd rule class="^Pavucontrol$" float=true center=true

and dk would honor the center=true value.

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[Nate Maia]

x=center y=center

see the manual or readme on rules and positioning

• x change the x coordinate, can be an integer or one of the following.

  • center left and right gravitate on the x coordinate.

• y change the y coordinate, can be an integer or one of the following.

  • center top and bottom gravitate on the y coordinate.

let me know if it doesn’t work

[Nate Maia]

Floating windows are intentionally arranged into a 3x3 grid as best as possible, so if you run floating and open a few windows dk does it’s best to not entirely overlap them (like having all of them in the center), rules avoid this. Also if a window specifies it’s location by remembering dk will respect it, many do, many don’t

[Rahul Garg]

I noticed x=center and y=center right after posting the issue. That seems to work and thank you for explaining the 3x3 grid to avoid overlaps, that makes sense. Please consider this issue resolved!

[Nate Maia]

Glad to help, cheers