Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 19:03:57 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    >> (there is a 'session-manager' in GTK that you can allegedly use to
    >> save and restore frame positions and sizes, but I canʼt find much
    >> documentation about it. I suspect it would still fall foul of
    >> Wayland's "there is no global coordinate system" mantra)

    Eli> Is there a way for the application such as Emacs to ask the
    Eli> "compositor" to locate the application's window?

>From all Iʼve read, the attitude on the Wayland side is "weʼre going
to give you random frame positions when you create a frame, because
we've decided that itʼs not the application's business where they end
up. Oh, and you canʼt move them either. Global coordinates for the
display are anathema, deal with it."

I suspect I would not get on well with them :-)

Robert