seprate window management component

2011-09-15 Thread cat
-- Forwarded message -- From: cat Date: Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:27 AM Subject: Re: seprate window management component To: Michal Suchanek On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 14 September 2011 18:21, cat wrote: >> well if clients are allowed

Re: seprate window management component

2011-09-14 Thread cat
t; Hello, > > On 14 September 2011 16:55, cat wrote: >> would it be to much trouble to make window management a proxy program? > > The wayland server has to know how the windows stack but the clients > are not trusted to tell it how the windows should stack so either the > server

seprate window management component

2011-09-14 Thread cat
would it be to much trouble to make window management a proxy program? Ex. - | appliation | -> | window manager | ->| display server | - and instead of figh

Re: Window stacking

2011-09-14 Thread cat
this might be a question more for these programs than for this list, but how can one of these programs handle the full desktop realestate? wouldn't that itself force the same condition that you have with the rogram being a single window? On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Bill Spitzak wrote: > Alo

Re: Wayland Window Management Proposal

2011-05-11 Thread cat
If I understand the proposal correctly this shouldn't be a problem. If the application becomes unresponsive the server has the ability to manage it (move, resize, raise, lower, possibly hide/show, and an option to kill it) and it knows if it didn't respond to events. I do think that there is one t

client side decorations

2011-05-06 Thread cat
-- Forwarded message -- From: cat Date: 2011/5/6 Subject: Re: client side decorations To: Kristian Høgsberg 2011/5/6 Kristian Høgsberg > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:14 PM, cat wrote: > >> "Window management policy" should also be client-side. I may not

Re: client side decorations

2011-05-06 Thread cat
> > "Window management policy" should also be client-side. I may not have been > clear about that. The wayland compositer almost NEVER moves or raises or > resizes a window. Clients do this in response to clicks or whatever. This > would have made it TRIVIAL to implement Gimp the way they intended,

Re:

2011-05-05 Thread cat
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:48 AM, microcai wrote: > 于 2011年05月05日 22:13, cat 写道: > > I thought the compositor would/could provide decoration. the compositors > are > > after all their own projects as wayland is a protocol, and if you haven't > > noticed, most metacity

Re:

2011-05-05 Thread cat
I thought the compositor would/could provide decoration. the compositors are after all their own projects as wayland is a protocol, and if you haven't noticed, most metacity/emrald themes are just a set of pictures, would it be bad if the compositor had the ability to handle images from files? i do

Re: will Wayland Support 'Hybrid' GPU switching systems

2011-04-29 Thread cat
there hasn't been any on the subject but I think that most of the work would be in kernel space, I think that some of these gpu switching systems use GPUs from different manufacturers (EX. ATI + Intel), so it is not clear if every instance of this feature is driver dependant or not. if its not thou

Re: wayland screen locker and security in general

2011-04-06 Thread cat
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 6 April 2011 18:34, Jerome Glisse wrote: > > 2011/4/6 Michal Suchanek : > >> 2011/4/5 Kristian Høgsberg : > >>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Michal Suchanek > wrote: > Hello, > > what is the plan for screensave/screen

Re: Memory issue with libcairo/gl and -nvidia binary driver

2011-03-24 Thread cat
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > In testing, we found an oddball issue that with enabling GL for > libcairo, when running under NVIDIA's proprietary driver applications > see significantly increased memory utilization. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/

anongit.freedesktops.org

2011-02-21 Thread cat
I'm not sure about who to contact about this but the wayland repository on anongit was moved and http cloning fails with this message: fatal: http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/wayland/wayland.git/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server? from what I can tell the prob