Have option to not tell windows they are maximized

[jbirnick]

Description

A common issue with Hyprland is that some windows don't remember their size. That is, if you use windows in floating mode and adjust them to some size, then after restarting they should open with the same size again (because they have internal mechanisms to remember the size and then give a size hint to Hyprland), but they don't.

The reason for this is that Hyprland tells windows always that they are maximized, and then the windows don't bother remembering their size. The reason that Hyprland does this is to force windows into not drawing e.g. shadows.

However, not having windows remember their size is a significant drawback, especially given that for many windows the shadow thing isn't even a problem, because they wouldn't draw any decorations anyway. Other windows managers (e.g. river) also don't do this maximizing "trick".

So I propose to add a window rule, which would allow the user to disable this tell-them-they-are-maximized-trick for certain windows.

Perhaps one could even add an option to set the default, so that one could set to default to "disable the trick", but then enable it for some special windows that draw otherwise would draw shadows.

[Walter-o]

I use Godot, and i think the issue is really prevalent there when it opens separate windows.

They always open too small and it's not saving the window size, only the position is saved.

seems chromium ( xwayland ) already does this, so im going to assume xwayland apps aren't sent hints

would it be best to only add a window rule, only add a config option, or add both?

[vaxerski]

window rule is enoguh

[Vladimir-csp]

Does something like this achieve the desired effect?

# always sync fullscreen states
windowrulev2 = fullscreenstate 0 0, fullscreenstate:0
windowrulev2 = fullscreenstate 2 2, fullscreenstate:2
windowrulev2 = fullscreenstate 3 3, fullscreenstate:3

Does something like this achieve the desired effect?

# always sync fullscreen states
windowrulev2 = fullscreenstate 0 0, fullscreenstate:0
windowrulev2 = fullscreenstate 2 2, fullscreenstate:2
windowrulev2 = fullscreenstate 3 3, fullscreenstate:3

no, the user is referring to windows not remembering their size after restarting them; using those window rules should not affect window sizes at all

[vaxerski]

fwiw if you want to patch it out you can just remove what CXDGToplevelResource::setMaximized does

[jbirnick]

If I read the conversation of #9422 correctly that this doesn't persist over multiple sessions.. but then I wouldn't call this issue completed, because having persistence even after rebooting is the purpose of this issue.

For example, my file manager should always have the same size, I don't want to adjust it every time I start my computer.

I guess it's session-based because you manually store the values? Why is it not possible to just let the windows handle it themselves? @nnyyxxxx was complaining that e.g. Firefox messes things up then, but that's not a problem, then you simply don't activate the rule for Firefox. Dolphin remembers its size, and all I want is that Hyprland doesn't tell Dolphin that it's maximized.

having it persist after restarts is simply not possible without storing a bunch of window sizes via a database

and that would be weird to do according to vaxry (and i agree) #9422 (comment)