Question about multi-display on wayland protocol

Bill Spitzak spitzak at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 11:08:00 PDT 2014


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.

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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