Bug 100798

Summary:	Add capability to split screen
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	Ricardo Funke Ormieres <ricardo.funke>
Component:	wayland	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Ricardo Funke Ormieres 2017-04-26 14:17:41 UTC

Is it possible to add a feature that permits split a screen into two virtual screens in the wayland layer (not the videos driver)?


Thanks

Comment 1 Pekka Paalanen 2017-04-27 07:40:30 UTC

If you really do mean the "Wayland layer", then yes, any compositor can implement that any time it wants, and there is nothing new required from Wayland or any other part of the graphics stack.

That would be purely a change in how a compositor of your choosing manages the application windows and reports output information. No changes to anything outside the compositor are needed.

Comment 2 Pekka Paalanen 2017-04-27 08:04:14 UTC

Oh, if by "Wayland layer" you meant libwayland, then no. libwayland does not implement anything, it's just an IPC library that does not understand the messages it relays.

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