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Use when creating anchored popup menus, flyouts, tooltip-like panels, or transient menu surfaces in Quickshell.
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| name | quickshell-popup-menu |
| description | Use when creating anchored popup menus, flyouts, tooltip-like panels, or transient menu surfaces in Quickshell. |
| source_examples | ["examples/quickshell/standalone/popup-menu-panel.qml"] |
| source_docs | ["https://quickshell.org/docs/v0.3.0/types/Quickshell/PopupWindow/","https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qml-qtquick-mousearea.html"] |
Use this for anchored menus, flyouts, tooltips, quick settings, inventory menus, or context panels attached to a shell widget.
PanelWindow and put PopupWindow inside that owner scope.anchor.window: <panel id>.anchor.rect.x and anchor.rect.y; avoid deprecated relativeX, relativeY, and parentWindow.visible to explicit menu state, but remember the popup is shown only when both visible and the anchor are valid.grabFocus: true if outside click should close/dismiss the popup.MouseArea with hover feedback and validator markers.~/.config/quickshell.hyprctl and FloatingWindow.PopupWindow has anchor.window and anchor.rect coordinates.