Window positioning

[Carsten Haitzler]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 01:37:08 +0000 "Han, Guowei"
<Guowei.Han at johnsonoutdoors.com> said:

> Thanks Jasper. Do u know if there's a demo i can learn from? Currently i am
> creating a bigger surface bigger than screen size. and make subsurface so i
> can posion them as i want. Really don't think its a good way to do it.

that is the intended design. it's a very good thing not allowing clients to
arbitrarily position themselves on a screen. a very good idea. wayland has
gotten it right here (and ivi-shell i think is just being wrong and not
understanding the mountain of history behind such a decision to disallow
manual explicit positioning).

> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jan 2, 2018, at 4:25 PM, Jasper St. Pierre
> <jstpierre at mecheye.net<mailto:jstpierre at mecheye.net>> wrote:
> 
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> Hi Han,
> 
> You cannot position surfaces absolutely using the traditional xdg-shell
> protocol. However, for embedded cases, there are protocols like ivi-shell
> which provide that functionality.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Han, Guowei
> <Guowei.Han at johnsonoutdoors.com<mailto:Guowei.Han at johnsonoutdoors.com>>
> wrote: Hi,
> 
> Wonder if there’s a way we can position window to anywhere we want using
> wayland or maybe weston?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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