Introducing xwayland and xf86-video-wlshm

[Corentin Chary]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Corentin Chary wrote:
>
>> update screen geometry
>> ----------------------
>> how ? virtualbox have an .. interesting approach to do that.
>>
>> window geometry
>> ---------------
>> X11::_Screen::MoveWindow()     |  wl_shell_resize()
>> X11::_Screen::PositionWindow() |  wl_shell_move()
>> X11::_Screen::ResizeWindow()   |
>>
>> wl_shell_listener::configure() | X11::ConfigureWindow()
>
> I would think that a rootless x-on-wayland would have to implement a fake
> X11 window manager that knew how to talk to Wayland. The window manager
> hints and messages is much to baroque for any simple 1:1 translation. Also
> this window manager would have to draw the window borders.

You mean a window manager in another process ?

> The actual X11 calls to resize windows (ie on an override-redirect window)
> would translate directly to changing the size of the Wayland window, not to
> the wl_shell calls.
>
> Rootless X on OS/X and Windows has been done and some of these questions
> must have already been addressed there.

Yes hw/xwin/ and hw/xquartz/ contain some code that could be used.

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