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Is there a way to fix this issue with Kando?
If you activate the radial menu, it'll create a transparent window that fills your entire screen. Showing this with mission control. Is there a way to just have the radial menu be a tiny window? Thanks. Sorry if this is not the place to ask.
If you activate the radial menu, it'll create a transparent window that fills your entire screen. Showing this with mission control. Is there a way to just have the radial menu be a tiny window? Thanks. Sorry if this is not the place to ask.
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Kando's full-screen transparent overlay is the standard cross-platform approach (mainly Electron). Although it gets the job done, it always litters Mission Control. It's cleaner on native tools like Radial - a small NSPanel at the cursor with the right window level and collectionBehavior flags so it doesn't show up in the switcher. On Kando's GitHub, there are a few issues about improving macOS windowing; adding your screenshot would be great. For now, switching the trigger to a keyboard shortcut works great. Radial is a better alternative though, have you tried it?
I have not tried Radial. I will check it out though, thank you! I'll also add this screenshot to their github issues, thank you again.
That fullscreen transparent overlay is pretty common for cross-platform radial-menu apps, but it always feels wrong on macOS because Mission Control treats it like a real window. If the app can’t switch to a smaller native panel, changing the trigger might be the least annoying workaround. But I agree, the ideal behavior is a tiny overlay at the cursor, not a full-screen invisible window.