[Gambas-user] wayland and screen

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I frequently notice here in the maillist that people ask why this and 
that and whatnot does not work in Wayland, and I am always very 
surprised by this questions. Why do you wanna use this someone's 
unimportant abomination of a code if it would most certainly be 
forgotten soon anyway as a stillborn. Moving windows in Wayland is one 
of many thing that is strictly forbidden. The Idea behind this is that 
if your program knows where on screen it is, or, god forbid, other 
program will know this - then you are in GRAVE DANGER because it is a 
deadly vulnerability. This hipster-only attempt to replace Xorg, wich, 
among other things, simply works - is not, IMHO, of any interest to 
anyone who is at least 13 years old.

I hate Wayland with passion, yes. It's not secure, it's beyond absurd 
restrictive. Your question was "Is it forgetting or a bug" - it's 
neither. It's Wayland's developers telling you they know better what you 
should and should not do with your PC and order you to stop wishing 
stuff they don't want you to. "Is There a turn-around?" Of course there 
is. Use Xorg. Main benefit - it works. It always did. It never was 
broken so it does not need to be fixed. It's just that today many X 
features were re-written on the side of toolkits and window managers, 
and X can do so many things, that just became obsolete, so some smartass 
thought "Oh wow, If I can rip DRI from X and say I made a new graphics 
server for Linux, I would be famous". Linux never needed that. There's 
no benefits of using Wayland. There are infinite number of downsides to 
using Wayland, some of which are due to it's just ridiculously raw and 
crawling with bugs, and some are due to babies that develop it are 
simply torn from reality and are not driven by what people need from 
Linux GUI but rather what they want people to.

30.01.2023 17:34, Philippe Valarcher пишет:
> Good Day,
> Me.move (screens [1] .x + screens [1] .width / 2 - 180, screenens [1] 
> .y + screens [1]. Height / 2 - 231) (with a form (360,462))
> seems not to work under Wayland. Is it forgetting or a bug. Is There a 
> turn-around?
>
> Philippe.
>
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