Can't arrange floating Dockers properly

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Hello. I’d like to make the Advanced Color Selector float above the canvas, but there are a couple things that hinder me to do so:

  1. When the Docker is left floating upon closing Krita, it disappears at the next launch
  2. It moves/resizes in a weird way when rearranging it

Screen recording that demonstrates this: https://imgur.com/a/i0Pb8vs

Could it be related to the window manager that I use, which is Niri?

  • Linux Distro: Arch
  • Window Manager: Niri
  • Krita version: 5.3.2
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Can you try using 6.0.2 with wayland, you need to set QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland environment variable to do it (only works with 6.x.x versions of krita).

But yes, this is most likely due to niri, tiling WMs do not really like floating windows like that and there isn’t anything we can do about it currently. There is some development on the wayland side that could potentially fix this issue, but it is not widely implemented yet in compositors, and would probably require a lot of work to implement on the krita side.

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This does the trick, thanks!