u/Asrobatics

Currently , I am still building a shell with QuickShell on Hyprland. While it's, almost done with the major work, and still in polishing the overall UI itself, where I've managed to get interactive layer-shell popups and click-away behavior working to a certain extent.

The issue I'm running into is that when I click outside a popup, it closes as expected, but the initiating click doesn't reach widgets inside the underlying window (buttons, file manager items, text fields, etc.). The click seems to activate or focus the window first, requiring a second click to actually interact with the widget.

Is this a limitation of Hyprland's input routing for layer-shell surfaces, or is there a Wayland protocol or Hyprland-specific mechanism I'm missing?

The reason I'm asking is that desktop environments such as KDE Plasma (KWin) and GNOME (Mutter) are also built on Wayland and combine both a compositor and a shell. They appear to support the following behavior: interactive shell popups can remain open, and clicking directly on a widget in another window both dismisses the popup and delivers that same click to the underlying widget.

With Hyprland, I'm unable to reproduce this. The first click appears to activate or focus the underlying window, but the widget itself requires a second click. In other words, the first click gets entirely swallowed.

Is this due to the way Hyprland handles input routing for layer-shell surfaces or window focus within a workspace? Or is this behavior only possible because KDE Plasma and GNOME have shells that are tightly integrated with their compositors? If so, is there any Wayland protocol or Hyprland-specific mechanism that would allow a QuickShell client to achieve similar behavior?

I could imagine a completely weird Wolfenstein III cutscene where BJ meets Charlie Chaplin on accident thinking he was Adolf Hitler😭

Because it would take place after New Colossus,(after 1960) and he is not dead yet...

It would coincidentally be taking place in the situation that bj has to find him and in the process, was trying to be near a figure, following the shilloute throughout the place, confidently, blending into the crowd and disappears towards the hall. Believing that it could be Hitler, BJ tries to follow him only to find out he was after the wrong moustache at the hall

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BJ:(slowly sneaks up with a hacksaw blade at the hall where no one is there, right behind Charlie Chaplin) (then grabs him and keeps the hacksaw on the edge of his neck) Do not move...

Charlie:(clearly trembling, not able to speak a word due to such a tight grab)

BJ: You tortured us enough, its time to settle it up now for good... any last words?

Charlie: W-w-wait...waittt!!!

BJ: Its over, Adolf...

Charlie: I am.... not... him...!!

BJ: (loosens the grip) What you mean?

Charlie: I am not Adolf Hitler...are, are you looking to kill him?

BJ: You have a problem with that?

Charlie: No- Not what I...well, actually, I am...Charles...Charles Chaplin...

BJ: (doesn't speak a word, drops the hacksaw aside) What am I supposed to do with that?

Charlie:No-Nothing much,just saying, I am not him...

BJ: You are a Nazi believer?

Charlie: What? No way I do...not with the hypocrisy going in here...

BJ: What do you do then?

Charlie: I am a, comedian... (pause) A TV comedian.

BJ: Oh...that explains why I didn't know you...I didn't had a TV back then.

Charlie: (laughs) That's fine...its a privilege even for the rich now... Well, I was here just searching if I could have a stay in the hotel... was planning a script for my movie...

I wanted to release it much earlier but...it was tedious with the war back then...

BJ: What movie is it?

Charlie: Its The Great Dictator...a parody movie of the man himself...

BJ: (processes) You actually fighting with a movie?

Charlie:(laughs softly) While he may be the kind to show superiority infront of others, I could imagine such kind of people doing the most creative things when alone... I can imagine him spinning the globe on his fingertip, playing piano on his free time...well, egoists are...weird like that....

BJ:(chuckles) Are you out of your mind? He is still in power you know right?

Charlie: That's what everyone said, and yet, I would pay everything to see his face when the film comes... Honestly, things were horrible in America even before the Nazis came, but atleast you had freedom to express ideas... I had tried convincing people about it, and at one point they were ready, clearly complaining that this is a bad idea... When the atom bomb fell here though, things haven't been the same now...there is no budget to make the movie. If a dictator can't survive being laughed at... perhaps he wasn't as powerful as he believed.

BJ: That's the kind of bravery I wanna see in my own country...anyways, I wonder what's a dollar worth these days..?

Charlie: Nothing...not at all...the currency has changed now... Do you happen to be the one trying to bring the revolution to America?

BJ: Yes ...

Charlie: May I know who are you by the way?

BJ: Oh...yes, William Joseph Blazkowiz.

Charlie: Wait...the one who people called as Terror-Billy?

BJ: Right...

Charlie: Weren't you, executed? Or... don't tell me this was all fake...

They said you are a Jewish American...

BJ: Well...its true...

Charlie: ...(couldn't process)What?

BJ: See this metal ring over my neck?(points at the contraction that connects the head to body) I was...put into a, new body...

Charlie: (totlally speechless) Oh lord technology has advanced this much...they put your head in a new body?

BJ: Well, I still feel pain... atleast... like a normal person would.

Charlie: Can I test?

BJ: How?

Charlie: With a punch?

BJ:(opens arms to say he can) Yea...try it...

(Charlie punches onto his stomach)

Charlie: It even feels like an actual body! Truly marvelous whoever invented it...

BJ: Its one among the Nazis that we stole to fight back...

Charlie:They speak of you as though you're everywhere at once. Yet you look so humble about it. I hope you and , people with you, make a true mark.

BJ: Thanks...maybe I will watch that movie when I set America free. There is some trash to clean up here. You among the Americans?

Charlie: Actually, I am British, but, my films brought me all the way to the U.S, unfortunately its not the place I know anymore, now that the Nazis are still desparate. They sure felt the fear after you killed the General. I hope you do what's right...

BJ: Will do what I can... I gotta go from here then...

(then from cutscene to in-game)

BJ: I am at the wrong place to search for that scumbag...

Wonder if Charles know about the propaganda film about me, directed by the fcker himself.

One making the world laugh. One making the world unfit to live in.

I could imagine a completely weird Wolfenstein III cutscene where BJ meets Charlie Chaplin on accident thinking he was Adolf Hitler

Because it would take place after New Colossus,(after 1960) and he is not dead yet...

It would coincidentally be taking place in the situation that bj has to find him and in the process, was trying to be near a figure, following the shilloute throughout the place, confidently, blending into the crowd and disappears towards the hall. Believing that it could be Hitler, BJ tries to follow him only to find out he was after the wrong moustache at the hall

---

BJ:(slowly sneaks up with a hacksaw blade at the hall where no one is there, right behind Charlie Chaplin) (then grabs him and keeps the hacksaw on the edge of his neck) Do not move...

Charlie:(clearly trembling, not able to speak a word due to such a tight grab)

BJ: You tortured us enough, its time to settle it up now for good... any last words?

Charlie: W-w-wait...waittt!!!

BJ: Its over, Adolf...

Charlie: I am.... not... him...!!

BJ: (loosens the grip) What you mean?

Charlie: I am not Adolf Hitler...are, are you looking to kill him?

BJ: You have a problem with that?

Charlie: No- Not what I...well, actually, I am...Charles...Charles Chaplin...

BJ: (doesn't speak a word, drops the hacksaw aside) What am I supposed to do with that?

Charlie:No-Nothing much,just saying, I am not him...

BJ: You are a Nazi believer?

Charlie: What? No way I do...not with the hypocrisy going in here...

BJ: What do you do then?

Charlie: I am a, comedian... (pause) A TV comedian.

BJ: Oh...that explains why I didn't know you...I didn't had a TV back then.

Charlie: (laughs) That's fine...its a privilege even for the rich now... Well, I was here just searching if I could have a stay in the hotel... was planning a script for my movie...

I wanted to release it much earlier but...it was tedious with the war back then...

BJ: What movie is it?

Charlie: Its The Great Dictator...a parody movie of the man himself...

BJ: (processes) You actually fighting with a movie?

Charlie:(laughs softly) While he may be the kind to show superiority infront of others, I could imagine such kind of people doing the most creative things when alone... I can imagine him spinning the globe on his fingertip, playing piano on his free time...well, egoists are...weird like that....

BJ:(chuckles) Are you out of your mind? He is still in power you know right?

Charlie: That's what everyone said, and yet, I would pay everything to see his face when the film comes... Honestly, things were horrible in America even before the Nazis came, but atleast you had freedom to express ideas... I had tried convincing people about it, and at one point they were ready, clearly complaining that this is a bad idea... When the atom bomb fell here though, things haven't been the same now...there is no budget to make the movie. If a dictator can't survive being laughed at... perhaps he wasn't as powerful as he believed.

BJ: That's the kind of bravery I wanna see in my own country...anyways, I wonder what's a dollar worth these days..?

Charlie: Nothing...not at all...the currency has changed now... Do you happen to be the one trying to bring the revolution to America?

BJ: Yes ...

Charlie: May I know who are you by the way?

BJ: Oh...yes, William Joseph Blazkowiz.

Charlie: Wait...the one who people called as Terror-Billy?

BJ: Right...

Charlie: Weren't you, executed? Or... don't tell me this was all fake...

They said you are a Jewish American...

BJ: Well...its true...

Charlie: ...(couldn't process)What?

BJ: See this metal ring over my neck?(points at the contraction that connects the head to body) I was...put into a, new body...

Charlie: (totlally speechless) Oh lord technology has advanced this much...they put your head in a new body?

BJ: Well, I still feel pain... atleast... like a normal person would.

Charlie: Can I test?

BJ: How?

Charlie: With a punch?

BJ:(opens arms to say he can) Yea...try it...

(Charlie punches onto his stomach)

Charlie: It even feels like an actual body! Truly marvelous whoever invented it...

BJ: Its one among the Nazis that we stole to fight back...

Charlie:They speak of you as though you're everywhere at once. Yet you look so humble about it. I hope you and , people with you, make a true mark.

BJ: Thanks...maybe I will watch that movie when I set America free. There is some trash to clean up here. You among the Americans?

Charlie: Actually, I am British, but, my films brought me all the way to the U.S, unfortunately its not the place I know anymore, now that the Nazis are still desparate. They sure felt the fear after you killed the General. I hope you do what's right...

BJ: Will do what I can... I gotta go from here then...

(then from cutscene to in-game as he progresses to do the mission)

BJ: I am at the wrong place to search for that scumbag...

Wonder if Charles know about the propaganda film about me, directed by the fcker himself.

One making the world laugh. One making the world unfit to live in.