Applications overlap bottom-placed-status-bars (waybar, sfwbar) at launch. However, they don't overlap top-placed status bars. about labwc

[johanmalm]

IIRC we just move to make sure top/left in not outside.
I guess it's only a problem if you have the panel in the "bottom" layer... and at the "bottom" of the screen.

Try:

function("SfwbarInit") {
  SetBarId "bar-0"
  SetLayer "top"
}

window {
  -GtkWindow-direction: bottom;
}

I suppose we could resize windows on launch to always fit within the output... I think I would quite like that actually regardless of the panel issue.

[orchardstreet]

This problem also occurs with waybar at bottom of screen.

I changed the sfwbar to the config you gave and the issue still persists. It occurs on most applications for me. But only when placed at bottom of screen, not at top of screen.

[Flrian]

My sfwbar works fine with SetLayer "bottom", but I've just tried it again and noticed that SetExclusiveZone has to be set to "auto" (Or commented out, that is the default value) or windows overlap the bar.

[Consolatis]

I suppose we could resize windows on launch to always fit within the output... I think I would quite like that actually regardless of the panel issue.

Yeah, With s/output/usable area/ I think this would be the proper solution (at least for newly spawned windows, not sure about existing windows on layershell updates like we do for the top).