Fwd: Tiling window manager implementation questions

Michael Forney mforney at mforney.org
Mon Aug 4 17:36:41 PDT 2014


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre at mecheye.net>
wrote:
>
> Second, how should the compositor deal with a window manager which wants
>> to change the size and position of a window rapidly in succession (for
>> example, the window is moved from one monitor to another, and then to
>> another)?
>>
>
> I don't understand this. The window manager and the compositor are in the
> same process. Why do you need any synchronization here?
>

Sorry, I misspoke. I meant "how should the window manager/compositor handle
the case where a user moves a window to several different tiled
configurations in rapid succession". Hopefully the rest of the paragraph
makes sense with that in mind.

-- 
Michael Forney <mforney at mforney.org>
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