[RFC xserver 0/3] Allow XWM to control Xwayland commits

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hey

On 5 December 2016 at 22:43, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:

> (apologies for being so slow to get to this thread, this is great stuff)
>
> On Mon, 2016-11-28 at 15:47 +0200, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Mind, I am mostly thinking this in Weston XWM terms, which draws the
> > window decorations through X11 like a normal window manager.
>
> That's fine. Honestly I'd prefer a world where the wayland server was
> not also the window manager, you should be able to run twm if you want
> (and have it work about as well as, say, twm on win32). That'd need an
> x11 compat protocol to really handle well, but again, okay. I think
> that's _better_ than the current model, where mutter just magically
> knows to get X geometry info through this side channel and therefore
> has to worry about races, instead of Xwayland always presenting a
> logically consistent view of its world to the wayland server.
>


Putting my /other desktop/ swimming suit here, I would love to see such a
model, it would greatly help with a wider Wayland adoption imho.

Cheers,
Olivier
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