On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 5:48 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 18:30:13 -0500 > Nicholas Bishop <nbis...@neverware.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way to run Weston as a nested compositor without the root > > window? My use case is running a parent compositor that doesn't support > > Xwayland, so I'd like to use Weston for X applications and have the > > resulting windows appear as regular windows within the parent compositor. > > > > Is something like this possible (or even reasonable)? Alternative > > suggestions welcome too :) > > Hi, > > Weston's Wayland backend has no such code, it would need to be written. > Essentially one would implement assign_planes hook that would make sure > to leave nothing on the primary plane. This would need code to forward > each wl_buffer type in its appropriate way and all the window > management. > > However, wanting to forward X11 windows would be problematic, because > in rootless mode you lose the control of absolute positions and you > basically lose a lot of window management behaviour that X11 clients > expect to work. This happens because Wayland for the desktops is > specifically designed to avoid many features the X11 clients are > accustomed to, like being able to control window position and > z-order, and grab input devices. > > My personal opinion is that effort would be better spent in helping the > parent compositor project to support Xwayland instead. > > > Thanks, > pq
Thanks for the insight, that's very helpful. If I go down the route of trying to add Xwayland support to the parent compositor, do you have any recommended resources such as documentation or a simple compositor with Xwayland support to guide me? Thanks, -Nicholas _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
