Bug 78372 - create multiple windows with offset

[Bill Spitzak]

On 05/08/2014 11:31 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> I don't know how you can have been on the Wayland mailing list for this
> long and not grasp core Wayland protocol concepts. Clients cannot get
> global surface positions, and it's been that way since day 1 six years
> ago.

Yes I know that. I said EXACTLY that in my email:

 >     As any such x/y position has been explicitly stated as being
 >     disallowed by Wayland...

Maybe my email is hard to read. I have a SIMPLE question:

"Can you supply a vague idea on how you imagine a client can control 
it's window layout without adding an x/y position to the api."

Unless there is an answer to this question I see no reason to make a 
feature request that, as far as I can tell, is impossible to fulfill.

> I also have never seen a patch or a line of code from you, ever.

I posted the same patch for the xserver for 6 months to allow it to read 
a different xorg.conf file. I finally got sick of being ignored and gave 
up, also recent xwayland can now work on a non-EGL wayland without 
having a special xorg.conf file, thus "fixing" it for me. However the 
underlying bug still exists and I'm sure there will be text that has to 
be in one xorg.conf file or the other that makes the other server choke. 
Maybe then somebody will fix it.

I would love to work on Wayland, but until I can be confident that I am 
compiling and running it correctly there is little I can do. I have 
posted questions about whether anybody else is seeing the rendering 
errors in X clients, and whether EGL clients should work on a non-EGL 
backend, but have not gotten any response, despite the fact that I am 
only interested in trivial yes/no answers.