Wayfire is allowing the alpha value to be set higher than 1.0
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Description
Wayfire version
0.11.0-3c9a7712 (Jan 18 2026) branch master wlroots-0.19.2
Describe the bug
Wayfire is allowing the alpha value to be set higher than 1.0.
To Reproduce
from wayfire import WayfireSocket
sock = WayfireSocket()
focused_view_id = sock.get_focused_view()["id"]
sock.set_view_alpha(focused_view_id, 100.0)
Expected behavior
1.0 max value
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Research direction
The reproduction uses WayfireSocket.set_view_alpha; start at that entry point and trace how the supplied alpha value is handled. Done means values above 1.0 are limited to 1.0, verified by rerunning the reproduction and checking the resulting behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 50/100