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		makomk on June 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An introduction to Wayland I think that's less "hard" and more "impossible by design" - that is, Wayland intentionally doesn't give applications any way to know or control the absolute positions of their windows, and of course Windows applications expect this.

shmerl on June 12, 2017 [–]

They can use a virtual desktop sized as screen itself, and position windows that way.

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