that is brutal5 steps back indeedI'll never understand a desktop effort that considers window mgt a dismissible subject
From: Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca To: MUUG RndTbl roundtable@muug.ca Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 1:41 AM Subject: [RndTbl] wayland has no support for --geometry
Ugh (rant time)... Wayland is sounding uglier with each passing day. Long may I postpone its existence on my boxen. Now I find out that by design(!!) wayland does not support any type of --geometry option for programmatically placing windows at certain locations on screen. For instance, I have a script that opens up about 20 windows in workspaces the way I like them sized/positioned, for use after I have to reboot. Saves me a ton of time as otherwise I have to position them by hand.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404456
This is about the 10th "deal breaker" shortcoming of wayland that I've discovered. I was optimistic once... no longer.
The more I read about wayland, the more it sounds like systemd in that it appears to be designed by Windows people, not UNIX people. And windows-are-always maximized people. And take 1 step forward, 5 steps back people (whereas true UNIXers always build on the past: IIABDFI).
Here's praying that, as many X/wm devs have assured me, that X will be around for a long time, alongside wayland. I have a funny feeling Linus' personal workstation (not laptop) will NOT be running wayland! _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable