How to fix albert's dimensions or fix its position on screen?

[salahoued]

Over the time I switched to using window manager/Compositors, I used different menus/launchers and lately I switched to albert and I liked it, the only I don't is it is jumpy I kind of jumps on the screen when typing, what I find a bit 'annoying', So I'd like to know if there is any way to fix its dimensions widthXheight and fill it with the history or most used items or maybe fix its position (or the position of the input bar) on screen and make albert render other items above or bellow it.

EDIT: Sorry I had internet problems, And couldn't add it

albert.webm

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Can you please post a screen capture?

[salahoued]

I might have found a solution, I used a theme based on spotlight and added in #frame the following:

min-height: 320px;
max-height: 320px;

when displaying 5 items only.

albert2.webm

Although I'd like if I don't have to fix the height like this and fix the position of the input bar so it doesn't move and have albert dynamically redraw/rerender the items like it always did It's fancier that way

Thanks a lot for this work.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

okay this is a fancy setup. wayland, external window management, probably even custom shaders.

i guess you have to make your compositor not moving the window around on resize.

[sojek4]

Can you position the launcher in any place of the screen? It seems like it's glued to one location only. I used to have it in the bottom third of the screen, now it displays in the upper part only. Adding windowPosition=@point(1278 276) to the config file doesn't change anything, but it seemed to work when albert.conf was used.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

That's a Wayland limitation. There's the layer shell protocol to the rescue but gnome does not support it.

[sojek4]

I found a workaround.
All I had to do was to install devilspie2 and create a script *.lua in ~/.config/devilspie2/.

if (get_window_class() == "albert") then
    -- set_window_position(x, y)
    set_window_position(880, 920); 
end

Now I can have it in any place of the screen.