On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Jonas Ådahl <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:30:45AM +0100, Jan Synacek wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm playing around with libwayland-client, implementing a simple >> application. I made the middle mouse button move the "window" using >> wl_shell_surface_move() when the button is pressed, which works. What >> I don't understand, though, is how do I make the compositor position >> the "window" when it's created? I would like to position it somewhere >> else than 0,0 in monitor coordinates. > > There is currently no protocol for hinting about how a surface should be > positioned. There most likely will not be a protocol that has "place me > at (x, y)" but rather more like "center me", "restore previous position" > or something more high level like that.
Out of interest, why is that? It seems to me that it's a rather trivial and basic operation to support. Maybe it's documented somewhere and I have missed it? >> Additionally, are clients expected to draw their decorations? If yes, >> does that mean creating subsurfaces that respond to pointer events? > > With wl_shell and xdg_shell, then yes. You can do it however you want, > either like Qt and GTK+ by simply drawing both the frame and the content > one single surface, or by using multiple surfaces, combining them using > wl_subcompositor to form a single "window". Great, thanks! -- Jan Synacek Software Engineer, Red Hat _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
