Le mardi 21 juillet 2020 à 19:03 +0200, Guido Günther a écrit : > Hi, > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 04:51:13PM +0100, s...@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
