Make popup window open at configurable location

[Ben]

Love the app. No bug to report. Just a script that I find useful to get diodon to appear in a predictable location.

Currently the default behaviour of diodon is that the popup window appears at the location of the mouse pointer.

I would prefer to have an option for it to appear at a predictable location independent of where the mouse is, such as the top left corner of the active window.

I wrote the following script as a work-around to have the popup appear at the top left of the active window:

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#!/bin/bash

# sends the diodon window to the top left corner of the active window.

unset x y
eval $(
        xwininfo -id $(xdotool getactivewindow) |
        sed -n -e "s/^ \+Absolute upper-left X: \+\([0-9]\+\).*/x=\1/p" \
               -e "s/^ \+Absolute upper-left Y: \+\([0-9]\+\).*/y=\1/p" \
)
swarp $x $y
diodon
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swarp is a utility from the suckless-tools package in debian.

[Oliver Sauder (sao)]

Thanks Ben also for the neat workaround. I think this could be a nice addition. The popup code needs to be rewritten anyway as it is currently using a function which got deprecated.

Any patches are very well come.