I3 - Notifications hidden behind fullscreen window

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Hi guys,

yesterday I finally did an in-place upgrade of my QubesOS installation. After some difficulties I was able to finally achieve a stable state. Thanks to the team for your efforts on improving QubesOS!

I am using I3 as my window manager and here with 4.2 it was possible to see notifications also when a window was in fullscreen mode. This seems to be not possible any more. The notifications always appear behind the fullscreen window. I know that there was some work done to unify notifications, but this behavior seems wrong to me.

Can somebody point me into the right direction how to make sure I can see notifications even though I am using an app in fullscreen with I3?

Thanks!

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For anybody facing the same issue. It seems that to be able to show notifications above fullscreen windows with 4.3 you need to adjust the xfce4-notifyd configuration by adding a “hidden” setting:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -p /compat/use-override-redirect-windows -s true -t bool

It is documented here:

Bye