Keep waybar in the background ?

[ABelliqueux]

I would like to have the bar always in the background (i.e; windows can overlap the bar)

It looks like the layer option set to bottom should do that but it's not ?

I tried various combinations with the 'mode', 'exclusive' and 'layer' options but couldn't find how to achieve that.

When setting mode to 'hide', it's almost what I want ( no space is reserved for the bar so I can get fullscreen windows) but then I can't grab the window since the titlebar is now behind the waybar. (Yes I know I can use a mod key to hide the bar, but I'd rather not have to do that.)

Is that achievable ?

[ABelliqueux]

Answering myself here : It looks like it's a bug ( #2941 )

Quoting myself:

After some investigations, it looks like 'layer' and 'exclusive' settings are ignored if "mode" is set (i.e; not commented out).

So having these settings in config.jsonc achieve a bar that stays in the background and doesn't reserve screen space :

// Layer and exlusive settings are honored
"layer": "bottom",
"exclusive": false,
 //"mode": "dock",