[systemd-devel] [RFC] VTs for multiple seats

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Tue Jul 10 14:33:36 PDT 2012


On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:03:37PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 09:29:05PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> >> I don't think this is currently possible with the weston codebase, as
> >> we require each compositor-backend to allow multiple surfaces.
> >
> > This part is all the conversation was about.
> 
> Sorry, I meant we require each backend to have multiple _active_
> surfaces. This is not needed by the system-compositor as we only need
> one active client. As I said all clients are fullscreen so we always
> show only a single surface. Or did I miss something?
> 

That's right. It also might sway the size argument back, as almost all of
weston's window management and a lot of its input code is no longer necessary.

--CJD


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