Post #408513
2026-02-08 19:31 UTC
The xx-zones #Wayland protocol for client window-positioning hints has been merged as experimental protocol into w-p a few days ago! 🎉
This means toolkits and compositors are now able to implement it and experiment with it, and we will see how the protocol fares in the wild and is actually used by toolkits (which was a matter of great debate). It also permits all the prototype implementations to converge on one protocol, instead of shipping incompatible snapshots. 1/x
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/264
Replies (3)
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@matk@mastodon.social 2026-02-08 19:36
The protocol is still experimental, so no client should expect it to be present in a compositor (and there are for certain compositors which will never have it). Also, the xx-zones protocol now only addresses xy-positioning, the z-positioning was spun out into `xdg-toplevel-groups`[1] prior to the merge and may get wider support. In any case, all of this is positive news for complex professional or multiwindow apps on Linux/Wayland! 2/2 [1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/471
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@nicorikken@mastodon.nl 2026-02-08 19:45
@matk Thanks for linking this. It is good to know that progress is being made on this sticky issue.
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@mihamarkic@mastodon.social 2026-02-10 12:24
@matk That might solve my two biggest issues with Wayland 🤩