Experimental Zones Protocol Merged To Wayland After 2+ Years, 620+ Comments (www.phoronix.com)

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After the merge request was opened back in 2023 and after going through 628 comments/activity, merged now to Wayland Protocols is the experimental zones "xx-zones" implementation for area-limited window positioning.

Matthias Klumpp spearheaded the work on the Zones protocol to Wayland for area-limited window positioning

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[-] Mihies@programming.dev 10 points 3 days ago

I'm so looking to this. There are two big issues in Wayland for me:

Firefox not restoring Windows where they were
RDP clients having problems with multimonitor setup

This feature might solve both (enable them) at same time. 🤩

this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026

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