Absolute coordinates using "wl_shell_surface_set_transient"

[Axel Davy]

Yes:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/commit/?id=ca43f0942e23356a0a0f3e08e4d20a8a31b4d629

Axel Davy

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Tarnyko wrote:

> Great ! Do you by chance have the reference of the patch, and know if it's 
> applied on the Wayland, Weston, Xorg... repository ? 
> Regards 
> Axel Davy writes: 
>> 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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