Hoping to be pointed in the right direction.

[klangman]

Hi Simon,
First off, thanks for the making BMW.

I ported your code to Cinnamon (LinuxMint) and it's proving to be very popular extension on Cinnamon (currently 6th on the list of popular extensions despite only being 6 months old). Hopefully my port as driven a few more people to your Github.

I don't know much about OpenGL so I was happy that your code ported to Cinnamon without having to modify any of the GLSL files but I did notice two issues with my port that I am hoping to fix and thought maybe you can point me in the right direction??

1. All window-opening effects end the animation sequence with the window appearing a pixel or two off to the left of where the window is truly located. So once the effect is done, the window appears to jump to the right by a pixel or two.
2. The Doom effect has a similar issue, but it also ends animating a significant number of pixels below the windows real location resulting in a pronounced jump back up to it's true location.

I am starting to slowly walk through some online OpenGL tutorials, but at my pace it might take a very long time before I can hope to debug these issues on my own. Thanks for any pointers you (or anyone else) can provide.

[klangman]

Actually, I just figured out what caused issue 1., so ignore that one, it's fixed now.

[Schneegans]

Hi there! Thanks for this awesome port! I had several Cinnamon requests before, so I am glad that people can use this now.

For your questions... Well, it's hard to guess! The vertical scale is computed here and here. If you set both to 1.0, I would guess that it works, but it will look not as good as it could.

A blind guess: Is the jump maybe as large as your panel is thick?

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Something completely different:

I am developing Kando and in order to make it work on GNOME Wayland, a small extension is required which provides some information like the name of the currently focused window or the current mouse pointer position via a D-Bus interface. Furthermore, it allows registering and simulating keyboard shortcuts.

Do you think that this could be ported to Cinnamon as well? Then Kando would work on Cinnamon's new Wayland session as well!

Edit: I would love to discuss this! You can join Kando's discord server, if you want.

[klangman]

Hi there! Thanks for this awesome port! I had several Cinnamon requests before, so I am glad that people can use this now.

For your questions... Well, it's hard to guess! The vertical scale is computed here and here. If you set both to 1.0, I would guess that it works, but it will look not as good as it could.

A blind guess: Is the jump maybe as large as your panel is thick?

You know what, I think the jump might be about the size of the panel actually. Good thinking.. I'll play around with it a bit, taking the panel height in account and see if that can address the issue. Thanks!

Something completely different:

I am developing Kando and in order to make it work on GNOME Wayland, a small extension is required which provides some information like the name of the currently focused window or the current mouse pointer position via a D-Bus interface. Furthermore, it allows registering and simulating keyboard shortcuts.

Do you think that this could be ported to Cinnamon as well? Then Kando would work on Cinnamon's new Wayland session as well!

Edit: I would love to discuss this! You can join Kando's discord server, if you want.

Sure.. I'll take a look at it and see what I can do to port this to Cinnamon. Wayland is still experimental in Cinnamon but it seems like it's getting significantly better with each release so it might be only a few more releases before people start using it for more than just playing around. I'll try and find some time in the next week or two to take a crack at it.

[Schneegans]

Sure.. I'll take a look at it and see what I can do to port this to Cinnamon. Wayland is still experimental in Cinnamon but it seems like it's getting significantly better with each release so it might be only a few more releases before people start using it for more than just playing around. I'll try and find some time in the next week or two to take a crack at it.

That would be totally awesome!