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Bug#965963: ITP: wlr-randr -- Utility to manage outputs of a Wayland compositor

From	Henry-Nicolas Tourneur <debian@nilux.be>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#965963: ITP: wlr-randr -- Utility to manage outputs of a Wayland compositor
Date	2020-07-21 19:40 +0200
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Le mardi 21 juillet 2020 à 19:03 +0200, Guido Günther a écrit :
> Hi,
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 04:51:13PM +0100, smcv@debian.org wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 14:27:43 +0000, Henry-Nicolas Tourneur wrote:
> > >   Description     : Utility to manage outputs of a Wayland compositor
> > > 
> > > Command line interface which allows setting the size, scale,  orientation
> > > of the
> > > output for a screen. This is the wayland equivalent to xrandr under X11.
> > 
> > How generically does this work? Do all major Wayland compositors
> > (GNOME Shell, KDE KWin, Weston, the Sway/wlroots family, ...) implement
> > the interfaces that it uses?
> > 
> > If it only works on wlroots-based compositors, or some limitation like
> > that, then it's still useful for users of those compositors, but the
> > quoted description seems misleading; saying what the requirements are
> > would help to set expectations.

Good point, thanks for the heads-up.
I will make sure that the package description is clear enough so that there are
no false expectations.

> > 
> > As far as I'm aware, some Wayland compositors (including GNOME Shell,
> > I think) have it as a design goal that unprivileged clients *can't*
> > make disruptive changes like switching between display modes.
> 
> The compositor needs to implement
> 
> https://github.com/emersion/wlr-randr/blob/master/protocol/wlr-output-management-unstable-v1.xml
> 
> which (afaik) only applies to wlroots based compositors atm.
> Cheers,
>  -- Guido
-- 
Henry-Nicolas Tourneur
mxid: @hntourne:matrix.nilux.be

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Bug#965963: ITP: wlr-randr -- Utility to manage outputs of a Wayland compositor Henry-Nicolas Tourneur <debian@nilux.be> - 2020-07-21 16:40 +0200
  Bug#965963: ITP: wlr-randr -- Utility to manage outputs of a Wayland compositor smcv@debian.org - 2020-07-21 18:00 +0200
    Bug#965963: ITP: wlr-randr -- Utility to manage outputs of a Wayland compositor Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> - 2020-07-21 19:10 +0200
      Bug#965963: ITP: wlr-randr -- Utility to manage outputs of a Wayland compositor Henry-Nicolas Tourneur <debian@nilux.be> - 2020-07-21 19:40 +0200

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