Bug 78372 - create multiple windows with offset

[Jasper St. Pierre]

What should happen if the user unplugs monitors, or adds an additional one,
or repositions them? What should be restored where?


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good to see there is an actual bug on this, but I need to ask for our
> exact case:
>
> Our app can be configured to have 2 (well actually any number) of windows.
> Normally each window is maximized or fullscreen on a different output. User
> expects to be able to rearrange the windows, change their size and whether
> they are fullscreen/maximized, and then do "save layout", and later when
> they run the software again or do a "load layout" they get EXACTLY the same
> arrangement of windows. In particular the windows must not be on different
> outputs than they were previously, they cannot overlap and there must be
> absolutely no way they can be swapped no matter what order the client
> creates them.
>
> Preserving the exact size and position is less important. In particular I
> have no problem with the compositor moving the windows if they do not fit
> on the current outputs. It is also acceptable for "maximized" or
> "fullscreen" to be more important than the size if the output changes size.
> It is nice to not change the size without a good reason however.
>
> If you want example clients, take a look at Nuke or Maya or 3DStudioMax or
> Photoshop or Blender or virtually every other application in special
> effects or video editing.
>
> As far as I can tell, Wayland explicitly makes this impossible. Requiring
> a special compositor is not acceptable as we need to run more than one
> piece of software on the same machine simultaneously.
>
> I would greatly appreciate an answer to this question: is Wayland not
> going to support this, or is there a plan to do so?
>
>
> On 05/07/2014 02:51 AM, Rohit Nandan wrote:
>
>> Please go through this NOTABUG bug.
>>
>>
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78372
>>
>>
>>
>> Rohit Nandan
>>
>>
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  Jasper
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