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I bet Linux is not even possible. How do you force windows to be at the same location across different systems. I use i3. There are plenty of other tiling manag
by MrQuincle 7y ago
I bet Linux is not even possible. How do you force windows to be at the same location across different systems. I use i3. There are plenty of other tiling managers. This is not gonna be cross-platform. Just my two cents.
- coscreen 7y agoAfaik each OS has hooks that lets apps with the required permissions set the location & measurements of other windows. So we're optimistic but obviously we're not done yet.
- robgibbons 7y agoShouldn't be too hard. The wmctrl package, for example, supports a whole bunch of different window managers.
- coscreen 7y agoThanks for the hint!
- em-bee 7y agoi don't know how it works on macos, but for it to be useful, windows don't have to be at the same location. on my computer i select the windows i want to share. each of those windows could be sent in a separate stream to the remote machines. and likewise my computer could receive independent streams of multiple windows. this way i could arrange all windows as i see fit. the alternative is that the app takes over a full screen and the shared windows are rendered within it. then the app is responsible for window placement and can implement its own way to arrange windows as it sees fit, and share that location with its peers. a window manager within a window manager, of sorts. something that many windows applications like photoshop already do. linux/unix could do that with Xnest already more than 30 years ago. nowadays there is also xpra, which can mirror windows across multiple screens. i don't know about wayland, but i believe it should be possible there too.