Treat Recordly's recording toolbar as a HUD

[ReidenXerx]

Recordly (https://recordly.dev, AUR recordly-bin) is an Electron screen recorder whose recording toolbar is a HUD: a small opaque pill painted inside a much larger transparent surface. Two Omarchy defaults work against that shape.

windows.lua tags every window default-opacity ("0.985 0.96"), which compounds with the app's own alpha until the desktop reads straight through the controls. And the standard border is drawn around the whole transparent surface, so a large empty rectangle is outlined around a small toolbar — which is what people notice first.

This gives it the same treatment webcam-overlay.lua and hermes.lua already get for the same class of window.

Matched on title, not class alone

Recordly's editor is an ordinary window that should keep tiling and keep its border, and it shares the class recordly with the toolbar:

class="recordly"  title="Recordly"         860x160   <- the HUD
class="recordly"  title="Recordly Editor"  1600x1000 <- an ordinary window

A class-only rule floats and de-borders the editor too. Scoping to title = "^Recordly$" leaves the editor alone.

Why pin and no_initial_focus

Both match webcam-overlay.lua, and both matter for a recording toolbar specifically: the stop button has to stay reachable from whatever workspace you switch to mid-recording, and a toolbar that appears while you are typing must not take the keystrokes. Happy to drop either if you would rather keep the change minimal.

Testing

Verified live on Hyprland 0.56.2 with recordly-bin 1.4.0:

• Toolbar no longer has a border rectangle around the transparent surface.
• Pill is opaque. Measuring pixel variance in a patch inside the pill (flat = opaque, textured = desktop showing through): stddev 45.0 before, 32.8 after dropping the opacity tag.
• pinned=true, floating=true confirmed via hyprctl clients.
• No focus theft: focused window was unchanged across the app launch.
• Editor window still tiles and keeps its border.

Note window rules apply at map time, so hyprctl reload does not retrofit them onto an already-open window — the app has to be restarted to see the effect.

Not covered

Recordly shows a third surface when the webcam is enabled (a ~200x200 bubble, same class). I only saw it briefly and did not capture its title, so I have deliberately not shipped a guessed selector for it. If it needs the same treatment, it is a one-line addition once someone reads the real title.