Window placement

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:05:33 -0700
Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/01/2014 01:58 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> 
> > So what you want isn't a position hint, but a "preferred output" hint.
> > That's a lot simpler of a problem to solve, and one that we've talked
> > about implementing before. The issue is then finding the color
> > correcting monitor, and then putting the video display on that.
> 
> Yes you are allowed to use the x/y only to select the output. Not sure 
> why this is not clear. The main problem is that an x/y conveys more 
> information that a compositor *MAY* want to use. Also it is very 
> convenient that it matches X, Windows, and OS/X.

Except that x,y does not identify a monitor.

Btw. did you ever consider, that the saved window position blobs could
be compositor-specific? I mean, the client could save a blob for each
compositor it has been running on separately, so you only need
reposition your windows from scratch on the first time you open that
app on that specific compositor. Use a different compositor for a
while, then come back, and you have your old setup you had here before.


Thanks,
pq