Shell surface positioning

[Jonas Ådahl]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:30:45AM +0100, Jan Synacek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm playing around with libwayland-client, implementing a simple
> application. I made the middle mouse button move the "window" using
> wl_shell_surface_move() when the button is pressed, which works. What
> I don't understand, though, is how do I make the compositor position
> the "window" when it's created? I would like to position it somewhere
> else than 0,0 in monitor coordinates.

There is currently no protocol for hinting about how a surface should be
positioned. There most likely will not be a protocol that has "place me
at (x, y)" but rather more like "center me", "restore previous position"
or something more high level like that.

> 
> Additionally, are clients expected to draw their decorations? If yes,
> does that mean creating subsurfaces that respond to pointer events?

With wl_shell and xdg_shell, then yes. You can do it however you want,
either like Qt and GTK+ by simply drawing both the frame and the content
one single surface, or by using multiple surfaces, combining them using
wl_subcompositor to form a single "window".


Jonas

> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Jan Synacek
> Software Engineer, Red Hat
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