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Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?
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tomas |
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Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits? |
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Mon, 15 Feb 2021 17:13:32 +0100 |
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On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 05:02:22PM +0100, Robert Pluim wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 17:23:44 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>
> >>Specifying the position/size of a new frame seems to work ok
> >> though.
>
> ...when using the XWayland backend.
>
> >> More generally, fixing this is not going to be trivial, as
> >> gtk_window_move under Wayland is designed to cause us grief:
> >>
> >> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940916>
>
> Eli> If this is the Wayland protocol, then users of Wayland will expect
> Eli> that, and we don't have to solve this problem. Right?
>
> I guess, although be prepared for a bunch of "desktop.el is broken"
> bug reports, along with "my workflow with (make-frame '((top . 50)
> (left . 50))) or (set-frame-position) doesnʼt work any more"
> complaints as Wayland becomes more widespread.
FWIW, on X the window manager also has the last word on top-level
window positioning.
The difference is that a user picking a WM making strong use of
that "last word" knows what she's doing (tiling WMs come to mind).
Wayland users, OTOH, haven't that choice, possibly they haven't
the insight.
Cheers
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- Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?,
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