Trouble keeping popups above other windows

[researcher2312]

I create a popup and add it as an object to my top bar. Then I hide and show it when needed. But regardless of moving it to top and keeping above other windows it is hidden below windows which were opened after the popup was created. Is it possible to have the popup be always on top of other windows without killing it and creating again each time?

class VolumePopup(PopupGridLayout):
    def __init__(self, qtile):
        self.is_visible = False
        super().__init__(qtile, ....)

@lazy.function
def show_popup(qtile):
    bar = qtile.screens[0].top
    if bar.popup == None:
        bar.popup = VolumePopup(qtile)
    popup = bar.popup
    if popup.is_visible:
        popup.is_visible = False
        popup.hide()
    else:
        popup.is_visible = True
        popup.show(relative_to=3, relative_to_bar=True, x=-3, y=5)
        popup.popup.win.keep_above(True)
        popup.popup.win.move_to_top()
        popup.update_controls(volume=bar.get_volume())

[elParaguayo]

Are you on Wayland or X11?

The popup code was created before we added layer support so I should probably add some code to make this easier to do.

[researcher2312]

This is on X11 version 21.1.11
Ubuntu 24.04