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Re: Emacs As a Wayland WM? Re: Abysmal state of GTK build
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Robert Pluim |
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Re: Emacs As a Wayland WM? Re: Abysmal state of GTK build |
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Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:03:20 +0200 |
>>>>> On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 21:04:05 +0530, Payas Relekar
>>>>> <relekarpayas@gmail.com> said:
Payas> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 07:29:59 -0700, "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
said:
>>
T> Suppose we: ...
T> 1. Look forward to the Wayland-only world (ie No X) I know that will be
T> a while...
T> 2. But suppose, in that world, we could write an Emacs Window Manager
T> (whatever that means under Wayland) ...
T> 3 Will things get easier in that somewhat pure world where one doesn't
T> have to both look backwards and forwards as we are apparently forced
T> to do right now?
>>
>> I donʼt know about the equivalent of exwm, but forking wlroots and
>> fixing up some of the more egregious annoyances might be doable.
Payas> What annoyances can you think of? AFAIK wlroots was made to be used
by
Payas> other WMs, of which there are few. None as prominant as Sway, but
Payas> they're there. The authors(Drew and Simon) have been fairly
responsive to accommodate
Payas> requirements of other WMs and maybe we can communicate instead of
hard
Payas> fork.
Not being allowed to tell the WM what coordinates you want new
top-level windows to be placed at is the first one that springs to
mind. Although that may be a Wayland issue rather than a wlroots
issue.
Robert
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