Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: casouri@gmail.com,  alan@idiocy.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   contovob@tcd.ie,  rudalics@gmx.at,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>   yandros@gmail.com,  larsi@gnus.org
> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 17:02:22 +0100
> 
>     Eli> If this is the Wayland protocol, then users of Wayland will expect
>     Eli> that, and we don't have to solve this problem.  Right?
> 
> I guess, although be prepared for a bunch of "desktop.el is broken"
> bug reports, along with "my workflow with (make-frame '((top . 50)
> (left . 50))) or (set-frame-position) doesnʼt work any more"
> complaints as Wayland becomes more widespread.
> 
> (there is a 'session-manager' in GTK that you can allegedly use to
> save and restore frame positions and sizes, but I canʼt find much
> documentation about it. I suspect it would still fall foul of
> Wayland's "there is no global coordinate system" mantra)

Is there a way for the application such as Emacs to ask the
"compositor" to locate the application's window?