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| author | Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt <eskil.abrahamsen-blomfeldt@qt.io> | 2023-03-17 13:43:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt <eskil.abrahamsen-blomfeldt@qt.io> | 2023-03-17 16:01:27 +0100 |
| commit | 5c7a3ea783b780bc5f924849091f1f3ffb4b892c (patch) | |
| tree | e1588d1fa2f43786853c0804343384bc19e96f33 | |
| parent | f50b853bed00f3f772407cce3fe7935f88d16811 (diff) | |
doc: Add note about platform support for window positions
On some platforms, such as Wayland (and also eglfs), manual window
positioning is not supported. Since this has caused confusion in the
past, we add a note to the documentation.
Pick-to: 6.2 6.5
Fixes: QTBUG-86780
Change-Id: Idf8dcdfad8ccfb9eb0f704fce05216562e433e20
Reviewed-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <tor.arne.vestbo@qt.io>
| -rw-r--r-- | src/gui/kernel/qwindow.cpp | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/widgets/doc/src/windows-and-dialogs/mainwindow.qdoc | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/widgets/kernel/qwidget.cpp | 4 |
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/gui/kernel/qwindow.cpp b/src/gui/kernel/qwindow.cpp index 5a0fc79f30..39cbf0d734 100644 --- a/src/gui/kernel/qwindow.cpp +++ b/src/gui/kernel/qwindow.cpp @@ -1882,6 +1882,10 @@ void QWindow::setFramePosition(const QPoint &point) For interactively moving windows, see startSystemMove(). For interactively resizing windows, see startSystemResize(). + \note Not all windowing systems support setting or querying top level window positions. + On such a system, programmatically moving windows may not have any effect, and artificial + values may be returned for the current positions, such as \c QPoint(0, 0). + \sa position(), startSystemMove() */ void QWindow::setPosition(const QPoint &pt) @@ -1905,6 +1909,10 @@ void QWindow::setPosition(int posx, int posy) \fn QPoint QWindow::position() const \brief Returns the position of the window on the desktop excluding any window frame + \note Not all windowing systems support setting or querying top level window positions. + On such a system, programmatically moving windows may not have any effect, and artificial + values may be returned for the current positions, such as \c QPoint(0, 0). + \sa setPosition() */ diff --git a/src/widgets/doc/src/windows-and-dialogs/mainwindow.qdoc b/src/widgets/doc/src/windows-and-dialogs/mainwindow.qdoc index 192d05aff7..827f7981ae 100644 --- a/src/widgets/doc/src/windows-and-dialogs/mainwindow.qdoc +++ b/src/widgets/doc/src/windows-and-dialogs/mainwindow.qdoc @@ -115,6 +115,15 @@ depends on the result of QWidget::frameGeometry() and the capability of the window manager to do proper window placement, neither of which can be guaranteed. + + \section2 Wayland Peculiarities + + On Wayland, programmatically setting or getting the position of a top-level window from the + client-side is typically not supported. Technically speaking, it depends on the shell + interface. For typical desktop compositors, however, the default shell interface will be + \c{XDG Shell}, which does not support manual positioning of windows. In such cases, Qt will + ignore calls to set the top-level position of a window, and, when queried, the window position + will always be returned as QPoint(0, 0). */ /*! diff --git a/src/widgets/kernel/qwidget.cpp b/src/widgets/kernel/qwidget.cpp index 08acae00c7..cb432c84bc 100644 --- a/src/widgets/kernel/qwidget.cpp +++ b/src/widgets/kernel/qwidget.cpp @@ -3547,6 +3547,10 @@ int QWidget::y() const See the \l{Window Geometry} documentation for an overview of geometry issues with windows. + \note Not all windowing systems support setting or querying top level window positions. + On such a system, programmatically moving windows may not have any effect, and artificial + values may be returned for the current positions, such as \c QPoint(0, 0). + \sa frameGeometry, size, x(), y() */ QPoint QWidget::pos() const |