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Do you know a single modern window manager of note that does not support E.W.M.H.? The “if” on X11 at this stage is a theoretical obscurity with every modern w
by Blikkentrekker 6y ago
Do you know a single modern window manager of note that does not support E.W.M.H.?
The “if” on X11 at this stage is a theoretical obscurity with every modern window manager of note supporting it, with the user being confident that it shall remain stable; on Wayland, the reality is that every single compositor has it's own own, typically unstable ways of doing this, though Sway is the one that is committed to stabilizing it and wants it's way of doing these things to become a standard, but that is of little use when the others are not picking it up.
- cycloptic 6y agoPlenty of older window managers don't support it correctly or use non-standard properties. Plenty of newer window managers have non-standard internal properties for unstable features too. I would not say that Sway is doing anything special here, what they have done is exactly what I was saying earlier: placed the unstable private APIs in the Wayland protocol, with all the problems that entails. Applications should probably not be consuming those APIs directly, they will likely want to go through an abstraction layer.