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there's a shortcut for setting overlay depth, i don't remember if its the default but for me meta+scroll on a window will push a window back or bring to the top.
if I'm in borderless full screen i can select what i want to overlay on my game by scrolling it to the top and demoting the game window to mid by one. note other windows may overlay that are open so its best to minimize or close anything else.
How did you set scroll as a shortcut? I found the option but it doesn't accept scrolling as an input
Either way, this has the same effect as Keep Below where ALL windows stay above the game. And still requires hiding the taskbar which I'm really trying to avoid - if for no other reason than it pops up any time my mouse gets near the bottom of the screen
i had to double check its
settings - window management - window behavior - window action - at the bottom you can set mouse wheel to 'keep above/below'
what launch options are you using on games? i haven't had this issue using proton + native wayland launch options. iirc gamescope treats windowed apps differently because its only a container and doesn't understand the diff between windowed and borderless windowed
testing in baldurs gate 3, no launch arguments, this works in both borderless windowed and full screen for me without taskbar popping up. though clicking on the window sitting above in fullscreen minimizes and in borderless i have to click back in to regain mouse control. basically the overlay can steal focus, maybe a kwin rule on the overlay to prevent focus stealing might work?
I'm using all the default launch options for Steam and Battle.net (through Faugus Launcher), the only thing I've touched is Window Rules.
I was wrong when I said it worked for me - I forgot I still had Window Rules set for Terraria (the game that made me make this post). I just tried with BG3 and was unable to replicate it. Here is what I did, am I trying correctly?:
Set game to Borderless Window and disable VSync (tried it On as well, no change)
Alt+tab to other window. Meta+scroll up a bunch of times
Alt+tab to game. Meta+down once
sounds exactly the same, only thing would be to test maybe if you can get the focus to work out of game with something like a browser, kate, dolphin to make sure it's not just kwin not working and has something to do with game config/proton/whatever you're overlaying? only thing i can think that's not standard for me is my taskbar is set to dodge Windows for visibility