Chrome notification popups

[tv42]

Niri 0.1.6 behavior of Chrome browser notifications from e.g. Slack notifications is very disruptive and hard to work with. Right now, every notification creates a new column to the right, with a new window showing the message there. That window steals the focus (interrupting my typing), and needs to be closed with the tiny [x] in the corner (no ESC etc).

You can test this at https://www.bennish.net/web-notifications.html

Anyone have a good idea of how to improve on this?

It seems Chrome developers have completely abandoned using native desktop notifications. (https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41496153 and https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/t551ib/comment/hz84t81/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 and https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/t5o39l/how_to_turn_chrome_native_notifications_back_on/ and https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41292312)

Window rules, maybe? niri msg -j focused-window tells me the popup doesn't really identify itself well: {"title":"","app_id":""}, so this seems impossible.

Firefox uses desktop notifications for popups, and is much more pleasant with niri.

See also:

• Floating windows: Floating window layer #122

[YaLTeR]

Huh. How does it work on other WMs? I'm guessing they put it into the floating layer based on non-resizability, but you still have the manually close issue?

[tv42]

They float in the right lower corner of the display, and it's up to Chrome to dismiss them at some point / user clicking X. They do not steal focus or cause layout shifts. I don't know what property in particular makes them float & position.

[YaLTeR]

This is in Wayland Chrome, or in X11 Chrome?

[tv42]

I believe I've seen that behavior in Wayland Chrome on Sway, previously -- but if it somehow failed to launch in Wayland mode and went back to XWayland, I wouldn't have noticed.