Robert Bragg authored Apr 05, 2012 and Jasper St. Pierre committed Aug 10, 2013

This breaks down the assumptions in stack-tracker.c and stack.c that
Mutter is only stacking X windows.

The stack tracker now tracks windows using a MetaStackWindow structure
which is a union with a type member so that X windows can be
distinguished from Wayland windows.

Some notable changes are:

Queued stack tracker operations that affect Wayland windows will not be
associated with an X serial number.

If an operation only affects a Wayland window and there are no queued
stack tracker operations ("unvalidated predictions") then the operation
is applied immediately since there is no server involved with changing
the stacking for Wayland windows.

The stack tracker can no longer respond to X events by turning them into
stack operations and discarding the predicted operations made prior to
that event because operations based on X events don't know anything
about the stacking of Wayland windows.

Instead of discarding old predictions the new approach...