On Wed, 8 Sep 2021 20:34:20 +0000 Hadrien Lacour <hadrien.lac...@posteo.net> wrote:
Dear Hadrien, > This, it would have been a great goal to modularize X11 and keep the > worthy parts, not just reduce it to an exercise in "minimalism" (and > complete lack of portability) and expect the free FOSS market to > magically solve the remainder. really well put, I totally agree! > A good rant. Let me add my biggest problem: global keyboard grabbing > isn't possible unless done by the compositor, so something like > bspwm+sxhkd doesn't look possible right now. Thanks! Yes, this is a good point. On a related note, the coordinate system is messed up as well. It's not possible to position a window somewhere specifically (e.g. at the top), which makes dmenu impossible. I understand that this was, again, done to make Wayland ultra-flexible, but if you really want to go all Zen you could at least offer a function allowing you to request to be positioned somewhere. If your fish-eye-compositor with bloody non-euclidean geometry denies this request, so be it, but 99% of the cases still cover the traditional rectangular desktop setup. What a mess this is! With best regards Laslo
