Question: does anyone know how to get the window properties of a specific window? about labwc HOT 6 CLOSED

I usually find app_id and title of opened applications from window swicther, since I'm lazy to use third party apps.

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The only thing that shows up in the window switcher is [xdg-shell] [xdg-shell] Picture-in-picture
I tried adding 'Picture-in-picture' but it doesn't work, I don't know if its the wrong window id or it just doesn't work for a picture in picture window

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Wlprop is a badly named application, it DOES NOT WORK ON ALL wlroots compositors,
right now, it only works on sway and hyprland, and that's because of IPC.

There is no way to get runtime info of existing windows without modifying the compositor
or running in debug mode and parsing the debug output.

And I'm not sure that it would even be possible to get the info of something like PiP.
Not sure if window rules would even work on it anyway.

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Success! I just had to change the identifier to title, well done labwc devs for creating a window manager with proper functionality, instead of just dumping windows either in the centre of the screen or in a cascade fashion, this is the window rule to open picture in picture in the bottom right corner of the screen.

  <windowRule title="Picture-in-picture" matchOnce="false">
    <skipTaskbar>no</skipTaskbar>
    <action name="ResizeTo" width="938" height="540" />
    <action name="MoveTo" x="981" y="540" />
    <action name="ToggleAlwaysOnTop"/>
  </windowRule>

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Sweet, glad it works. I was not sure if windowrules would work on something like a PiP, as it's not a normal application window. It's a media window attached to another app (chromium, firefox, etc).

Enjoy

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There is for example wlrctl or lswt

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