wayland global positioning
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If I understand things correctly, most steam games current rely on xwayland or a compositor specific feature to position their window on the user’s preferred monitor, while in a wayland-only scenario the wayland devs prefer to have it open randomly, and the application should be able to be resized without any error, despite the fact that I always want it to open on my preferred monitorBeen reading some of the current discussion over the wayland protocols related to global positioning, e.g. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/264, though it gets into some other discussions about multi-window apps that need to move their windows dynamically around the screen. Some of the sentiment that I’m getting is that some, not all, of the waylands devs want to remov…

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