Bug 100798 - Add capability to split screen
Summary: Add capability to split screen
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Wayland
Classification: Unclassified
Component: wayland (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Wayland bug list
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Reported: 2017-04-26 14:17 UTC by Ricardo Funke Ormieres
Modified: 2017-04-27 08:04 UTC (History)
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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)?


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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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