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

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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.

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.

    smcv

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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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