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Full-screen across multiple but limited number of screen ? #8467

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inkhey opened this issue Nov 20, 2024 · 1 comment
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Full-screen across multiple but limited number of screen ? #8467

inkhey opened this issue Nov 20, 2024 · 1 comment
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enhancement New feature or incremental improvement window-management Configuring and arranging toplevels

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@inkhey
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inkhey commented Nov 20, 2024

  • Description:
    My use case is that I need to have a single application full-screen across multiple "compatible" screen (we have a rectangle with all screen used by this app combined).

It's already possible to:

  • do something similar with the fullscreen global option, but this mean that we can't have another screen aside with different content.
  • do some crazy tricks with floating windows, windows size and border size to make seems "look like full-screen on multiple windows" but this is really fragile (we can still move the window).

This kind of use case is something that is possible using x11/i3 with xrandr software by creating a "combined screen" and map the windows to screen using i3:

# example of screen combination
xrandr --setmonitor OverlayDisplay 3840/476x2160/268+0+0 HDMI-A-0,DisplayPort-0,DVI-D-0

For now, I don't see any good solution to handle this usecase using sway. It will be great to have a solution to do so.

@inkhey inkhey added the enhancement New feature or incremental improvement label Nov 20, 2024
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Note, we're in general not accepting any new window management features anymore. See https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#scope-of-future-changes-to-sway

@emersion emersion added the window-management Configuring and arranging toplevels label Nov 22, 2024
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