Re: Compositor handoffs: Switching clients between compositors

2021-08-16 Thread Carsten Haitzler
On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 14:13:06 +0100 David Edmundson said: FYI we did this a few years back for efl and enlightenment... on a loss of the compositor socket, toolkit retires connecting and comes back. we added an extended protocol for the compositor to send a UUID to the client per surface and clie

Compositor handoffs: Switching clients between compositors

2021-08-16 Thread David Edmundson
Hi all, I have been working on a method of "Compositor handoffs"--allowing clients to switch between compositors at runtime--and I wanted to share my progress with everyone and gather some feedback. # Overview The design is very simple at it's core. A client knows everything about the state of i