Re: Emacs As a Wayland WM? Re: Abysmal state of GTK build

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> 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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