Need support to display application at (0, 0) position on Weston desktop

[huy nguyen]

Hi Pekka,

Thank you for your helpful feedback.
I understand all your points and will take a look to provide a custom logic
to weston desktop to support my use-cases.

Best regards,
Huy

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 5:07 PM Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 21:38:06 +0700
> huy nguyen <huykhacnguyen1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a Linux system based on weston wayland. I run MPV player and
> expect
> > it displays a video window at (0,0) position on the screen (top left
> corner
> > of the display). I already use x11egl backend option to MPV to support a
> > fixed position to application but the video window of MPV is displayed at
> > an offset (X offset, Y offset) from (0,0) position as shown by the
> picture
> > below:
> >
> > [image: IMG_6944.jpg]
> >
> > Can we have a support from weston wayland to position (0,0)  to
> application
> > running on Xwayland backend?
>
> Hi,
>
> I think the gap you see is the window decorations. Weston's X11 Window
> Manager (XWM) and demo clients have a fairly wide margin around window
> decorations. So the window actually is at (0, 0) already, and the gap
> is really just the decorations.
>
> Maybe you can tell mpv to tell XWM to not decorate the window at all,
> or maybe you can make the position slightly negative to close the gap.
>
> However, if this is a not general use desktop, and kiosk-shell does not
> fit, the I'm afraid the only reliable way to get exactly the window
> management behaviour you want overall is to fork and modify Weston's
> desktop-shell plugin. I mean, maybe you would also like the video
> window to stay on top regardless of where the user is touching/clicking.
>
> Composing an application from multiple independent programs like video
> players necessarily requires the window manager to be part of the
> application. As window managers are built into Wayland compositors, you
> have to change the compositor. In Weston case that happens by loading
> a different "shell" plugin.
>
> Usually if you want an application to embed a video player, you do that
> with video playing libraries inside the application, and not by adding
> an external video player which then requires careful window management.
>
>
> Thanks,
> pq
>
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