Victoria Brekenfeld

yeah true. but the basic idea should work for the most part, I hope. Because the destruction_callback is not giving us much more options than using something like a channel.

> Not sure if this works for all subsurfaces. There could be a sub-subsurface where the parent subsurface gets unmapped. This should also use the geometry of the sub-subsurface as...

Well I guess this issue has two sides: 1. If you assume there is some kind of generic abstraction over different backends in smithay and thus there should be documentation...

Started to address this in https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/conrod/pull/952

> Hello, if possible I would like to request the feature that the screen lock is designed so that it can be locked and unlocked from crontab or a tty....

Yes that is fair. So far the code in our examples folder code was focused on the backend side of things. A simple compositor - likely only supporting the most...

> This does work, with one major issue. When the x11 backend is not the main x11 shell but rather just another x11 window being run, and the user moves...

> > Also does the `connection.grab_keyboard` request return a `XCB_GRAB_STATUS_SUCCESS` (or whatever the equivalent is in x11rb), could you log that? > > This is the exact keyboard grab function...

It won't necessarily. For window managers like xmonad for example, requiring haskell to dynamically load the configuration file is a non issue, because it is required for running xmonad anyway....

I am not invested enough into dwm to compare, but it will be reasonable high-level. I want to abstract away a lot of stuff in fireplace.