Allow retrieving the state or to explicitly set it (not just toggle)

[MangelMaxime]

If you'd like to put out an incentive for implementing this feature, you can do so at https://issuehunt.io/r/bk138/gromit-mpx

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Hello,
I am using Gromit with Hyprland and like others on Wayland I found some issues.

1. When starting Gromit is taking half of one of my monitor and displayed on top of the others windows.

   Workaround:

   # When starting gromit we need to trick it to hide the window
   # toggling twice the visibility seems to do the trick
   exec-once = gromit-mpx & sleep 1 && gromit-mpx -v && gromit-mpx -v
   
   # Force the window to take 100% of the space on the current monitor
   # This prevent Gromit-mpx to be placed/sized strangely
   windowrule = size 100% 100%, class:(Gromit-mpx)
   windowrule = noanim, class:(Gromit-mpx)
   

2. The shortcuts don't seems to work out of the box.

   Workaround:

   Optional: Disabe the default shortcuts in Gromit-mpx to make sure they don't conflict with Hyprland.

   HOTKEY = "";
   UNDOKEY = "";

   Then set the shortcuts in Hyprland:

   bind = , F9, exec, gromit-mpx -t
   bind = SHIFT, F9, exec, gromit-mpx -v
   bind = CTRL, F9, exec, gromit-mpx -c
   bind = , F8, exec, gromit-mpx --undo
   bind = SHIFT , F8, exec, gromit-mpx --redo
   

3. When I am not in drawing mode, Gromit don't let me click through the window, unless the window below is running on XWayland.

   To work around this, limitation I could use Hyperland nofocus windows rules.

   But because, Gromit only allows to toggle via CLI it is no easy to make a robust script.

Describe the solution you'd like

Would it be possible to provide a way to get information about the state of Gromit-mpx via CLI or to add more CLI options to set the state of Gromit-mpx?

Instead of gromit-mpx -t, if we had something like:

• gromit-mpx show
• gromit-mpx hide
• gromit-mpx cursor grab
• gromit-mpx cursor off

It would make it much easier to know the state of Gromit-mpx, and use it in scripts to toggle tags or Hyprland rules.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I am considering writting a script which check if a Gromit-mpx window is open in order to determine the state of Gromit-mpx.

However, this is not perfect because it will not allow me to determine if the cursor is in drawing mode or not.

Additional context

[MangelMaxime]

It is also possible that if the bug of not being able to click through Gromit window when over an Hyprland Wayland windows would fix my last issues.

I am saying this is a bug because of this README section:

If activated Gromit-MPX prevents you from using other programs with the
mouse. You can press the button and paint on the screen. Key presses
(except the F9-Key, see above) will still reach the currently active
window but it may be difficult to change the window-focus without mouse...
The next gromit-mpx --toggle will deactivate Gromit-MPX and you can
use your programs as usual - only the painted regions will be obscured.

[MangelMaxime]

Actually it seems like Gromit does allows to click through on Wayland but it doesn't forward it to the correct places.

I am on Workspace 1, and Gromit seems to forward the information to my Workspace 2 which has a VSCode instance. VSCode is running via xwayland so perhaps this is why Gromit forward it there instead of the native Wayland window I have opened on Workspace 1