Window goes blank when Hints activates.

[Preppyprep]

So the window just goes pitch black when I use the keybind and trigger hints. The hints keys suggestions show perfectly. But the entire window goes black.

[AlfredoSequeida]

This means you don't have a compositor setup to adjust the windows transparency.

In short: hints itself is a window that pops up over your other windows. And the background of the hints window is meant to be transparent so that you can see your application window though the hints window. But to make this possible, your window manager needs to support transparent windows. If you're using X11 install a compositor like picom.

If you're using Wayland, this is specific to your compositor. For example Hyprland has a setting to enable this in your config.

If you look at some of the previous issues you will find how other people solved this for different window managers.

[Preppyprep]

I already have picom configured on my i3. What could be the problem?

[AlfredoSequeida]

Got it, can I see your picom config as well as your picom logs when you trigger hints? That might give us more of an insight.

[Preppyprep]

I figured it out. My config was wiped off with no backend setup. Do you prefer glx or xrendr for hints?

[Preppyprep]

Also. How do I change the right click key? Because when I hold the shift while putting the hints keys. It doesn't do it because it turns into text selection (since its an electron app. I'm guessing). So can I do something like this?

{
  "backends": {
    "opencv": {
      "application_rules": {
        "infloww.exe": { "kernel_size": 6 }
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "exit_key": 65307,
  "hover_modifier": 4,
  "grab_modifier": 8
  "GDK_BUTTON3_MASK: "
}

[AlfredoSequeida]

Indon't have a preference for glx/xrender

So if you're using a electron app, you should be able to use the atspi backend (as long as you enable that app to use accessibility like mentioned in the wiki link I shared), unless you don't want to use ATSPI.

And if you want to change the keys, your config looks a little strange. The hints config is a single JSON object. It looks like you have more than one.

So want one set of curly braces:

{
... All of your options 
} 

Right now you have

{
... Some settings 
} 

{
... more settings 
} 

Which is not right.

So do something like :

{
  "backends": {
    "opencv": {
      "application_rules": {
        "infloww.exe": { "kernel_size": 6 }
      }
    }
  }
  "exit_key": 65307,
  "hover_modifier": 4,
  "grab_modifier": 8
}

[Preppyprep]

Oh it's not JUST an electron app. Its running wine. So its a electron windows app running on wine. Is that okay?

[AlfredoSequeida]

I'm not super sure, it probably depends on the content of the app. I would say just try launching it from the command line like:

app_binary_name --force-renderer-accessibility

Then trigger hints on it and see what happens.