mainmenu issue

.quicknote/3a52ce780950d4d969792a2559cd519d7ee8c727/todo.md

@@ -1,27 +1,21 @@
 # TO-DO Items
 
-
-- [x] DONE  add in screen record
+- [x] DONE add in screen record
   - [ ] TODO make screen recorder work'
     - [ ] TODO choose terminal application to use
     - [ ] TODO set it up in the screen recorder
     - [ ] TODO change screenshot menu to approximate the AWFUL dotfiles variant
-- [ ] TODO fix whatever is wrong with the launcher causing it to error out now that I have proper error handling
-- [ ] TODO lint icons, remove unused, replace for feather icons where practical, etc
-- [ ] TODO controls to Notifications Popup
-  - [ ] TODO Chart placement?
-- [ ] TODO - `plugins/rubato`, `modules/effects` and `modules/animations/instance` do the same thing
-  - [ ] TODO normalize the various animations to use just one of these
-  - [ ] TODO create documented examples for the usage of the result
+
+- [ ] TODO lint icons, remove unused, replace for specially chosen bold icons where practical or improves function recognition, etc
+
 - [ ] TODO incorporate all the necessary functionality then remove the plugins entirely, mitigating headaches and much bloat
--  [ ] TODO
-- [ ] TODO: Eliminate bling configuration hold-overs from tabbar and mstab 
-- [ ] TODO fix mstab annoyance layout error 
+- [ ] TODO: Eliminate bling configuration hold-overs from tabbar and mstab
+- [ ] TODO: Windows appearing bigger than workspace area issue
 
 ## Archived Items
 
-- [x] DONE: TabBar to single file in modules 
-    - NOTE: Used `pure` style that conforms to titlebar layout
+- [x] DONE: TabBar to single file in modules
+  - NOTE: Used `pure` style that conforms to titlebar layout
 - [x] DONE replace taglist to enable buttons/actions on items shown
 - [x] DONE application menu animation
   - frustrated thus far, will load but now won't dismiss
@@ -32,3 +26,11 @@
   - NOTE needed to use nerd font not font awesome // material fonts
   - NOTE ultimately moved to using SVG files, SVG scale better even with awesome having had issues with rendering them, they seem to be fine and I prefer having the additional fine-grained control over the icon
 - [x] DONE add in proper error handling
+- [x] DONE fix whatever is wrong with the launcher causing it to error out now that I have proper error handling
+- [x] DONE controls to Notifications Popup
+- [x] DONE fix mstab annoyance layout error
+- [x] DONE - `plugins/rubato`, `modules/effects` and `modules/animations/instance` do the same thingx] TODO Main Menu stopped working?
+  - long story short, call awful.menu.new() instead of file
+  - [x] DONE normalize the various animations to use just one of these
+- [x] TODO Main Menu stopped working?
+  - long story short, call awful.menu.new() instead of file

configuration/mousebindings.lua

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ local menu = require("ui.menu")
 local function set_mousebindings()
   awful.mouse.append_global_mousebindings({
     awful.button({}, 3, function()
-      menu.mainmenu:toggle()
+      awful.menu.new()
     end),
   })
 

modules/sfx.lua

@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
-local awful = require("awful")
-local beautiful = require("beautiful")
-local gfs = require("gears.filesystem")
-local M = {}
+-- This Lua module contains simple functions for playing sounds at startup and notifications
 
-local function spawn(cmd)
-    awful.spawn.easy_async(cmd, function() end)
-end
+local awful = require("awful") -- Import the 'awful' module
+local gfs = require("gears.filesystem") -- Import the 'gears.filesystem' module
+
+local M = {} -- Create a table to store the functions
 
+--- Play a sound notification using pacat
 function M.play()
-    awful.spawn(
-        "pacat --property=media.role=event "
-            .. gfs.get_configuration_dir()
-            .. "themes/assets/sounds/notify2.wav"
-    )
+  awful.spawn(
+    "pacat --property=media.role=event "
+      .. gfs.get_configuration_dir()
+      .. "themes/assets/sounds/confirm1.wav"
+  )
 end
 
+--- Play a startup sound notification using pacat
 function M.startup()
-    awful.spawn(
-        "pacat --property=media.role=event "
-            .. gfs.get_configuration_dir()
-            .. "themes/assets/sounds/startup.wav"
-    )
+  awful.spawn(
+    "pacat --property=media.role=event "
+      .. gfs.get_configuration_dir()
+      .. "themes/assets/sounds/notify0.wav"
+  )
 end
 
-return M
+return M -- Return the table containing the functions

signal/rules/init.lua

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ ruled.client.connect_signal("request::rules", function()
       ontop = false,
       honor_padding = true,
       honor_workarea = true,
+      round_corners = true,
       sticky = false,
       screen = awful.screen.preferred,
       placement = awful.placement.under_mouse
@@ -70,7 +71,12 @@ ruled.client.connect_signal("request::rules", function()
     },
     properties = {
       floating = true,
-      placement = awful.placement.center + awful.placement.centered,
+      screen = awful.screen.preferred,
+      placement = awful.placement.under_mouse + awful.placement.center + awful.placement.centered,
+      size_hints_honor = true,
+      honor_padding = true,
+      honor_workarea = true,
+      round_corners = true,
     },
   })