On 6/11/2024 11:42 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
Hi
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 10:28 PM Kim, Dongwon <dongwon....@intel.com
<mailto:dongwon....@intel.com>> wrote:
Hi Marc-André,
On 6/5/2024 12:26 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 9:59 PM Kim, Dongwon
<dongwon....@intel.com <mailto:dongwon....@intel.com>
> <mailto:dongwon....@intel.com <mailto:dongwon....@intel.com>>> wrote:
> Xorg may not be going away soon, but it's used less and less. As
one of
> the developers, I am no longer running/testing it for a long time. I
> wish we would just drop its support tbh.
There are features offered by Xorg that are not offered by Wayland
compositors and again, we have customers that rely on these features.
One of them is the ability to position the window via
gtk_window_set_position(). There are strong arguments
made on either side when it comes to window positioning:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/247
<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/247>
Until there is a way to do this with Wayland compositors, we have to
unfortunately rely on Gnome + Xorg.
It's a smaller and smaller number of users. The potential/future users
are greater if we focus on Wayland.
Right, but until Gtk + Wayland offers the same feature parity and
customization as that of Gtk + Xorg, there will be distros/users that
will keep it alive.
Fwiw, GNOME (and RHEL) is set to drop Xorg support
(https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session/-/merge_requests/98
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session/-/merge_requests/98>)
Doesn't look like it is going to happen anytime soon given the massive
pushback.
Btw, there is a similar monitor-mapping functionality implemented in
virt-viewer/remote-viewer:
https://www.mankier.com/1/virt-viewer#Configuration
<https://www.mankier.com/1/virt-viewer#Configuration>. Is this something
that those users could use instead?
It looks a bit similar and interesting but one difference is that our
feature uses monitor labels such as DP-1, HDMI-2 which is a bit more
intuitive. And, the other key difference is that our feature includes
"hotplug" functionality where a Guest display/window is deeply tied to a
physical monitor to make it appear to the guest that it is dealing with
a real physical monitor.
In other words, when the physical monitor is unplugged, the associated
guest display/window gets destroyed/hidden and gets recreated/shown when
the monitor is hotplugged again.
--
Marc-André Lureau
