Question about multi-display on wayland protocol

Bryce W. Harrington b.harrington at samsung.com
Tue Apr 15 12:01:05 PDT 2014


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:08:00AM -0700, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> I think he is asking how to run Wayland so that it controls more
> than one monitor. This has nothing to do with how windows act once
> Wayland is running.

That's how I read it too.

@Yang, there have been various patch proposals for randr-like behavior
floated on the list in recent weeks that you might like to experiment
with and give feedback on.  I'm also interested in this use case but
haven't done any testing on it yet.

Bryce

> On 04/13/2014 11:34 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> >I'd imagine this is something like _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS,
> >which allows an application to full-screen across multiple
> >outputs. This is a use case xdg-shell doesn't handle right now. I
> >don't know of anything but games that would like to use such a
> >feature, though.
>
> >On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Pekka Paalanen
> ><ppaalanen at gmail.com <mailto:ppaalanen at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >    On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 02:51:41 +0000
> >    Yang Andy <williamyang13 at hotmail.com
> >    <mailto:williamyang13 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >    > Hello everyone
> >    >
> >    > I have one question about multi-display control on wayland protocol.
> >    >
> >    > I want to control and render dual displays on wayland protocol.
> >    >
> >    > Could anyone give me some advice about how to control dual
> >    displays on wayland protocol?
> >
> >    Hi,
> >
> >    what exactly do you want to do, what is the use case?
> >    Is it for desktop or some non-desktop (e.g. phone, STB or IVI)
> >    environment?
> >
> >    Would the maximize/fullscreen protocol with the set_output request in
> >    xdg_shell fit your need?
> >
> >
> >    Thanks,
> >    pq
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