qt5 window setGeometry and move not work in wayland platform

[Steve (YiLiang) Zhou]

Hi Pier,
Thanks for your quick reply, your explain is very useful. But forgive me to bother you again, could you please give me an example or a link  of how to achieve that? 

Thanks and Best Regards
Steve Zhou


-----Original Message-----
From: Pier Luigi [mailto:pierluigi.fiorini at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 3:11 PM
To: Steve (YiLiang) Zhou
Cc: interest at qt-project.org; wayland
Subject: Re: qt5 window setGeometry and move not work in wayland platform

Clients don't get to set window position with Wayland.
You should write a Wayland protocol for that but you need a compositor that speaks that protocol.

2014-08-11 8:13 GMT+02:00 Steve (YiLiang) Zhou <szhou at telecomsys.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> My app has a mainwindow and a QDialog which is a child of mainwindow. 
> And I want to set the app to the position 0,0.
>
> I use both setGeometry and move to  0,0. No luck , both failed. The 
> window’s position is unfixed and may appear to anywhere on the screen.
>
> My Qt version :5.2.2
>
> Some codes in my app:
>
> Widget is my qdialog this is my mainwindow.
>
>
>
> widget->setStyleSheet("background:transparent;");
>
>     widget->setAttribute(Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground);
>
>     widget->setWindowFlags(Qt::FramelessWindowHint);
>
> this->setStyleSheet("background:transparent;");
>
>     this->setAttribute(Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground);
>
>     this->setWindowFlags(Qt::FramelessWindowHint 
> |Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint );
>
>     this->move(0,0);
>
>     widget->move(0,0);
>
>
>
>
>
> has anybody met this before?
>
> BTW: I  use wl_egl_window_create a shell window  and  
> wl_egl_window_resize set the position, it can be set to 0,0.
>
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> Thanks and Best Regards
>
> Steve Zhou
>
>
>
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