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by play_ac 937 days ago
The server doesn't have enough information to do it because it doesn't know anything about window management. At best it could use a heuristic to guess, but one of the reasons Wayland combines the server and the compositor is so that we don't need to pile heuristics into the X server and drivers any more.

Nothing in Xorg is a minor change because it has to be tested with every window manager and compositor before you can even think about merging.