[Feature Request?] Hide overlay while discord is the active window

[jonathanbreitg]

i was unable to find a setting in the configuration setting which allows you to hide the discord overlay when using discord itself (like in the official discord overlay), is there a way to turn it off in the configuration settings?

[trigg]

I'd be interested in having this feature, but I imagine it would need to be 3 things under the hood. One via X11, another via wlroots and absolutely no idea how to cleanly do this under gamescope.

Also it would have to be disabled by default or we'd get a slew or false reports that it doesn't work as they're still interacting with discord.

[jonathanbreitg]

I'm not sure myself how to implement this with gamescope however for detecting whether discord is the active selected window on X11 you can use this snippet i wrote:

def get_active_window_title():
    root = subprocess.Popen(['xprop', '-root', '_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    stdout, stderr = root.communicate()
    print(stdout)
    m = re.search(b'^_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW.* ([\w]+)$', stdout)
    if m != None:
        window_id = m.group(1)
        window = subprocess.Popen(['xprop', '-id', window_id, 'WM_NAME'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
        stdout, stderr = window.communicate()
    else:
        return None

    match = re.match(b"WM_NAME\(\w+\) = (?P<name>.+)$", stdout)
    if match != None:
        return match.group("name").strip(b'"')

    return None

def is_discord_active_window():
     return ("Discord" in str(get_active_window_title()))

I'm not familiar with this codebase but i assume there is someway to poll this function and hide the overlay accordingly, let me know if you're going to try to implement this yourself or if i could get familiar with your libraries and frameworks and i'll make a pull request although it will likely take a while

[trigg]

I'm fairly sure calling out via subprocess would be a bad idea. We already have Xlib dependency for some of the gamescope stuff.