Absolute coordinates using "wl_shell_surface_set_transient"

[Axel Davy]

Did you test with git master? There has been a patch recently about this.

Axel Davy

Le 17/09/2013 10:37, Tarnyko a écrit :
> Hi Giulio, Bill,
> We were originally investigating a problem happening when using X/GTK 
> applications under XWayland ; most of the menus appeared badly 
> positioned when they opened.
> For example, under Evolution with XWayland, when opening the "File" 
> menu, the menu appears but outside the application's window.
> We supposed (but we maybe wrong) that the menu may be a X11 Window, 
> then wrapped as a surface by XWayland, as the bug was related to 
> Weston badly calculating the new surface coordinates.
> (BTW, it would be great if you had an opinion/insight on this matter)
> Thanks for all your answers, nice to see some reactivity on this list 
> :-).
> Regards,
> Tarnyko
>
> Bill Spitzak writes:
>>
>>
>> Giulio Camuffo wrote:
>>> No, it's not supposed to work, and if it works it's just by pure 
>>> chance and/or because of how the shell works internally.
>>> There is no way to place a surface to an absolute position from the 
>>> client side, but there may be ways to solve your problem in a 
>>> different way.
>>> What are you trying to achieve?
>> Loading saved window arrangements from a client's configuration file 
>> is the likely reason. At the moment this is a problem for migrating 
>> our software to Wayland. I understand the desire to remove this from 
>> Wayland but I am somewhat stumped on any other way for Wayland to 
>> provide this functionality. It appears it is possible for X clients 
>> to do this, so I think the battle is lost and Wayland should add this 
>> for non-X clients.
>> I agree the supplied code should not work. Attempting to set a loop 
>> in the surface parents should be an error.
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