Re: Getting a compositor display name?

2019-11-13 Thread Jonas Ã…dahl
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 11:00:05AM +, Simon Ser wrote: > On Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:11 AM, Pekka Paalanen > wrote: > > > However, my fear with adding such information is that then clients > > might start adding conditional code paths based on the Wayland > > compositor name or

Re: Getting a compositor display name?

2019-11-13 Thread Simon Ser
On Wednesday, November 13, 2019 12:25 AM, Drew DeVault wrote: > I don't know of a way to do this today, but I think it would make for a > reasonable addition to wl_display. Additions cannot be made to wl_display, because it's not versioned. Only globals retrieved through wl_registry.bind and

Re: Getting a compositor display name?

2019-11-13 Thread Simon Ser
On Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:11 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > However, my fear with adding such information is that then clients > might start adding conditional code paths based on the Wayland > compositor name or version, which is an incorrect approach. Client > behaviour that depends on

Re: Getting a compositor display name?

2019-11-13 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:59:40 -0700 "Ronan Pigott" wrote: > Hello, > > So EWMH has this thing "_NET_SUPPORTING_WM_CHECK": > > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html#idm140130317670464 > > where the WM maintains a special window with some atoms for > introspecting the

Re: Getting a compositor display name?

2019-11-12 Thread Drew DeVault
I don't know of a way to do this today, but I think it would make for a reasonable addition to wl_display. ___ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel