On 2018-04-13 4:02 PM, Jonas Ådahl wrote: > > - A client using fullscreen-shell could offer the user a list of outputs > > by name to fullscreen on > > I think this would need something different, an actual "human friendly" > name, like 'Dell 24"' or 'Builtin monitor'. If you'd have strings like > "DP-1", they are hardly helpful for selecting where to fullscreen.
In sway, we have a slightly more savvy base user than the general population, and we've educated them to understand connectors. However, this is exactly why the field is vague - other compositors can name them anything they like, including "Dell 24". > > - Xwayland can name the X11 outputs based on their genuine names rather > > than assigning e.g. XWAYLAND0 > > If the protocol is loosly specified as in it's not known what format > you'll get, I don't think Xwayland can make any use of this. Can you elaborate on what expectations Xwayland would have? I am open to restricting the format a bit, e.g. to ASCII characters or so. -- Drew DeVault _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
