Overlay, no Window

[uneven acorn]

I'm currently evaluating whether Tauri is a good fit for me. I want to create a desktop with only an overlay menu. Is that possible with Tauri?

[jade halo]

that's a screenshot of https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95 right? I don't think there are any major blockers that would prevent something similar in Tauri. Maybe a few things here and there but they are barely using anything electron specific (really only using it to wrap it inside an explicit app). To me it looks like it could very easily be converted to a small localhost server and then you could open it in your average browser as well.

[uneven acorn]

Sorry, I didn't mean to cause any confusion. Please ignore the Windows background (found on google); it was just to show that we are on a desktop system. I just want to develop the sketched menu.

[jade halo]

ah sorry

if it needs to be a custom drawn menu (via web tech for example) you'll have to spawn windows without decorations but in general what you're asking for should be possible. You just need something like rdev to get notified about the mouse clicks since tauri does not yet expose device events.

[uneven acorn]

Thanks, what about global hotkey? So when a systemwide global hotkey is pressed the menu will open at the cursor position.

[jade halo]

there's a global-shortcut tauri plugin