On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Joshua Marshall wrote:
> I'm trying to look at moving pcmanfm from LXDE over to Wayland. This would
> be my first real attempt at doing much GUI related, so when searching for a
> guide to switch a X based program to Wayland, I couldn't find any
> documentation.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> Both Linux and windows support text files that say something like this (we
> wrote the code that reads/writes these files):
>
> window_position: 10,30,400,500
Your example is already deeply broken, since it doesn't consider
things like the
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> IMO a first step in clarifying everything is defining how we think
> about pixels: are they squares of width and height 1.0, or do we think
> of them as points, with unit spacing.
The best way to deal with this, I have found, is to treat a
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:32 AM, David Jackson wrote:
> How does a wayland app do that? How does a wayland app tell the GPU to
> render a square 30x30 at coordinate 40x40? Keep in mind, there are many
> different manufacturers of GPUs and each may have different bugs and
> differences in the inte
ient, "You should resize yourself." Until
the client responds with a new buffer, however, the compositor is
stuck drawing the window border in the same non-resized location
(otherwise it would tear). Thus, compositor-side borders behave no
better than client-side borders, and a lot of
s? I
don't know; there are good arguments on both sides. My point is that
either way is perfectly feasible from a purely technical point of
view.*
-William Swanson
* Actually, doing the Windows Vista "glass" effect requires the
compositor to get involved with borders. The glass
Many people have strong opinions about client side window decorations.
I would like to introduce some facts. Specifically, how does Windows
7, a widely-used desktop OS with client-side decorations, handle
things?
Unresponsive applications:
I created a test program with a "crash" button and a stand
