HUD always-on-top fixes for Wayland/COSMIC
Cluster 84011 · apps/desktop. Data as of
Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #93553 on 24 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.
The short answer
- Known?
- Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #93553. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
resolved, deciding PR #93553. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
- Nothing open on GitHub.
These issues and pull requests address HUD mode functionality on Wayland, particularly the always-on-top behavior breaking under COSMIC and other Wayland compositors. Proposed fixes involve adding an ozone_platform_hint setting to run under XWayland as a workaround.
Open issues0
Open PRs0
Fixes on record
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#93553 fix(desktop): make HUD mode work on Wayland (supersedes #82861, #84013, #84896, #92153, #87109, #82632)
files:
apps/desktop/electron/hud-geometry.test.ts,apps/desktop/electron/hud-geometry.ts,apps/desktop/electron/hud-input-policy.test.ts,apps/desktop/electron/hud-input-policy.ts,apps/desktop/electron/hud-ipc.ts,apps/desktop/electron/main.ts,apps/desktop/electron/preload.ts,apps/desktop/electron/zoom.test.ts,apps/desktop/electron/zoom.ts,apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/controls.test.tsx,apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/controls.tsx,apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/index.tsx,apps/desktop/src/app/hud/click-through.ts,apps/desktop/src/app/hud/composer-drag.test.ts,apps/desktop/src/app/hud/composer-drag.ts,apps/desktop/src/app/hud/hud-shell.tsx,apps/desktop/src/app/hud/resize-handle.test.ts,apps/desktop/src/app/hud/resize-handle.ts,apps/desktop/src/global.d.ts,apps/desktop/src/i18n/ar.ts(+13 more)
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1
- #84013 fix(desktop): add desktop.ozone_platform_hint to restore HUD always-on-top on COSMIC/Wayland · superseded by another PR
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#84011fix(desktop): HUD always-on-top ignored under COSMIC/Wayland — add desktop.ozone_platform_hint to run under XWayland
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- Subsystem
- apps/desktop
- Merged PRs
- #93553
- Closed issues
- 1
- Attempts
- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 24 Aug 2026