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