Mir

Nested Mir does not support a windowed mode

Bug #1646449 reported by Alan Griffiths
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Mir
Triaged
Medium
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mir (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

With the plan to support Unity8 on the desktop we should be providing similar developer support witn Mir-on-Mir to that offered by Mir-on-X.

Something like: --mir-displays <width>x<height>...

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Sounds like something we would get for free if nested was a proper first class platform. Isn't kdub working on that?

tags: added: enhancement nested
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Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths) wrote :

I don't think it "comes for free" with making nested a loadable "platform" module. There are abstractions missing in the logic.

Currently the nested code simply assumes that the intent is a fullscreen display on every output. C.f. mgn::Display::create_surfaces().

We need to disentangle the code somewhat so that the configuration can override that default

E.g. the code calling mir_surface_spec_set_fullscreen_on_output() is mgn::MirClientHostConnection::create_surface(), and that doesn't have the context to know whether fullscreen is wanted.

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Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote :

Syncing task from Mir.

Changed in mir (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
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