[PATCH] protocol: allow to send a zero physical output size

[Simon Ser]

Hi all,

I'd like to bump this, because it seems that's how they do it on the
X11 side [1]. So adding this would allow to have better Wayland
behaviour _and_ correct X11 screen data via Xwayland.

Thanks,

[1]: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2018-July/057301.html

On July 3, 2018 12:27 PM, Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr> wrote:
> Physical size doesn't always make sense for all outputs. In case
> it's not available or not relevant, allow compositors to send zero.
> ---
> In practice this doesn't seem to break any client toolkit. We've been
> doing that for a long time in wlroots.
>
>  protocol/wayland.xml | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/protocol/wayland.xml b/protocol/wayland.xml
> index b5662e0..141038b 100644
> --- a/protocol/wayland.xml
> +++ b/protocol/wayland.xml
> @@ -2399,6 +2399,9 @@
>  	The geometry event describes geometric properties of the output.
>  	The event is sent when binding to the output object and whenever
>  	any of the properties change.
> +
> +	The physical size can be set to zero if it doesn't make sense for this
> +	output (e.g. for projectors or virtual outputs).
>        </description>
>        <arg name="x" type="int"
>  	   summary="x position within the global compositor space"/>
> --
> 2.18.0
>
>
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