This backend interacts with libhybris to create a hwcomposer which is
used for creating the egl context and surface. The initial version of
this backend is based on test_hwcomposer.cpp provided by libhybris.
Please note that using the hwcomposer backend requires a newer libepoxy,
the latest stable release is not able to bring up OpenGLES, so one needs
a master build of libepoxy.
Notes on licensing:
libhybris is Apache 2.0 licensed, which is not compatile with GPLv2.
But it is compatible with GPLv3. Thus the source files in the hwcomposer
backend are licensed GPLv3+ and not GPLv2+ as the rest of KWin. If one
uses KWin without the hwcomposer backend (which is obviously the default)
the licence doesn't change. But if the hwcomposer backend is used the
overall license of KWin changes to GPLv3+.
Each of the backends becomes a plugin. This allows kwin_wayland to load
the requested plugin and kwin itself doesn't need to link all the
libraries needed. E.g. libdrm is no longer linked if running kwin_x11.
Also this allows to create backends for the non-standard EGL platforms
(examples could be raspberrypi or Android devices).
With this change all backends need to emit the screensQueried signal
at some point. So far only x11 backend did not provide the signal,
wayland had a comparable delayed init mechanism. Now all backends use
the same mechanism.
The aim is to be able to create a plugin for each of the backends.
The following directories are created:
* backends/drm
* backends/fbdev
* backends/wayland
* backends/x11
Requires to move the screensQueried signal and disconnect during
Application startup.
As Screens only hold the geometry of each screen and the overall
geometry, there is no need (yet) to update in more detail when a
DrmOutput is added or removed. The overall queried is sufficient.
Introduces a new (optional) dependency: libdrm.
The DrmBackend currently supports finding the first connected output.
It can create shared memory buffers which are used by SceneQPainter to
do double buffered rendering.
There is still lots to do, the following things are not yet working:
* multiple outputs
* page flip
* OpenGL (through gbm)
* restoring mode setting to start value
E.g. KSelectionOwner installs a native event filter and listens for
xcb events. Without that the KSelectionOwner::claim never succeeds and
for other X11 applications it will look like Compositing is not
supported.
This allows to start applications once kwin_wayland is started. E.g.
kwin_wayland --libinput --xwayland --framebuffer /usr/bin/startkde
Thus it would start startkde once both Wayland Server and Xwayland
are up and running and ready for connection. This resolves the problem
that prior to startup it is not known which will be the X11 display
variable. By passing the environment to the process by KWin this problem
is resolved.
Setting this means we get scaled screen geometry from Qt, and everything
becomes confusing when commmunicating with apps that might not have
this set.
As we use plasma units for UI everything is scaled anyway.
REVIEW: 123115
Getting the cursor image from the cursor theme is unfortunately not
straight forward. We have three different libraries and all have
drawbacks:
* XCursor - we just kicked it out
* xcb-util/cursor - only provides xcb_cursor_t, so a dependency on X
* wayland-cursor - only a client side API
The picked solution is using wayland-cursor. It provides the cursor in a
wl_buffer. Unfortunately the client side API does not easily allow to
a) read it back
b) init without a wl_shm_pool
Thus we need to work this around:
* create an internal connection
* get a ShmPool on it
* init WaylandCursorTheme with this ShmPool
* get the cursor wl_buffer from the theme
* trigger a roundtrip
* get the corresponding BufferInterface for the buffer
* set the content as the software cursor
A new Singleton VirtualTerminal is added. It interacts with Logind to
get the VTNr to take over. To get the signal to release and acquire the
VT we use a signalfd with a QSocketNotifier to monitor for signals. The
used signals must be blocked for all threads prior to startup otherwise
they are delivered to secondary threads causing issues.
Both Wayland and X11 backend are bound to the --windowed flag. Which
one to create is decided whether DISPLAY or WAYLAND_DISPLAY env variables
are set with Wayland having precedence over X11. Passing the display as
command line argument overwrites the env variable and takes further
precedence. E.g. if WAYLAND_DISPLAY is exported and --x11-display
argument is provided, it will create X11 backend. Similarly there is now
a --wayland-display command line argument.
If no backend got created, kwin_wayland will exit.
The singleton variant of WaylandBackend is adjusted to take the display
as argument and pass it to the Connection.
This new backend allows to start a kwin_wayland server nested on an
X-Server by using a normal X11 window as output. This allows testing
kwin_wayland without needing to start another Wayland server first.
The behavior is triggered by using new command line arguments:
--windowed
--x11-display=<:0>
With optional --width and --height arguments.
In this mode the WaylandBackend is not created at all.
So far the backend is not fully integrated yet and only the QPainter
backend supports this mode.
This requires a change present in Qt 5.4.2, without the startup will
freeze. A warning message is shown if the compiled Qt version is not
at least 5.4.2. It's only a warning and an ifdef as distros might
backport the required change.
WaylandServer allows to create a ClientConnection which is intended for
QtWayland. This allows us to easily identify our "own" surfaces. The
created file descriptor is set as env variable WAYLAND_SOCKET prior to
creating the Application. Wayland will unset it after connecting, so we
don't need to unset it. This removes the hack of setting and resetting
the WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variable.
Creates a socketpair in WaylandServer and creates a ClientConnection for
Xwayland. The created file descriptor is passed to Xwayland through the
WAYLAND_SOCKET env variable.
QtWayland performs an eglInitialize in the main thread when for the first
time an OpenGL context/window is needed. In KWin's startup this happens
during initializing Scripting which creates a QDesktopWidget and triggers
the creation of a QWindow with a RasterGLSurface.
Calling eglInitialize in the main thread blocks as it calls wl_roundtrip.
We cannot just disable OpenGL as that would mean that we cannot use
QtQuick.
The workaround in this change is to create a QWindow with a
RasterGLSurface in a thread and call create on it. This ensures that
OpenGL gets initialized in the thread and doesn't block.
For Xwayland we need to have the Scene (and EglDisplay) created prior
to starting Xwayland and having X11. This requires creating the
Compositor before creating Workspace and starting Xwayland.
To support this the startup of Compositor is split into two parts:
prior and after Workspace creation.
The change might also be interesting for the kwin_x11 case as it could
result in the compositor being up in a quicker way.
This reorders the startup sequence quite a bit:
1. Create QAbstractEventDispatcher and install it on QCoreApplication
2. Create Application
3. Start Xwayland, use thread to get when its ready
4. Create xcb connection
5. perform startup
For using the wayland QPA it needs a patch in QtWayland which will be
part of Qt 5.4.2, otherwise it blocks.
Only --xwayland stays supported. The option --displayfd and --rootless
are always set. Simplifies the feature matrix and the other X servers
don't make any sense now that we can start a proper rootless Xwayland.
The WaylandServer is at the moment only used to support starting an
Xwayland. It does not support Wayland clients yet, so don't get
excited.
For Xwayland it's using the trick of creating the Display before the
QApplication is created with manual event dispatching.
The --xwayland option starts a rootles Xwayland server. If a
rootless Xwayland server is used OperationModeXwayland is used
which is introduced with this change as well.
Adjust the KWIN_DBUS_SERVICE_SUFFIX env variable in a multi-head
scenario instead of adjusting the "org.kde.kwin" DBus service which
we actually don't use in 5.x any more.
REVIEW: 122217
kwin_wayland gains a new command line option to enable libinput support.
This is needed as logind blanks the VT when the session controller
releases the control. So a nested compositor can seriously affect the
primary session. Thus it needs a dedicated command line switch to
enable it.
By default libinput support is disabled for kwin_x11 and can be enabled
for kwin_wayland in case KWin is compiled with libinput support.
The Wayland event queue is moved into a dedicated thread and a
new class is created for just creating the connection and listening
for events. The WaylandBackend creates the thread and uses an event
queue for the main thread.
REVIEW: 119761
KWin_Wayland still needs an X-Server. To simplify the development
setup the required X-Server can be started through a command line
argument together with KWin. Unfortunately the command line arguments
processing needs to be done by hand as QCommandLineParser only allows
processing after QApplication is created which requires the started
X Server.
The nested X-Server is started by forking the application and using
execlp to load the binary. In addition a pipe is created to allow the
X-Server to write the display number to once it's ready to connect and
by that KWin is ready to create the QApplication.
All of kwin except the main function goes into a new (private) library
called kwin. Two new kdeinit_executables are created:
* kwin_x11
* kwin_wayland
Both only use a dedicated main_x11.cpp and main_wayland.cpp with the
main function and a KWin::Application subclass and linking the new
kwin library.
The main idea behind this is to be able to perform more sane sanity
checks. E.g. on Wayland we don't need to first test whether we can
create an X11 connection. Instead we should abort if we cannot connect
to the Wayland display. Also the multi-head checks are not needed on
Wayland, etc. etc. As most of that code is in the main function to
simplify it's better to split.
This will also make it easier to diverge more easily in future. The
Wayland variant can introduce more suited command line arguments for
example. This already started by having the --replace option only
available in X11 variant. The Wayland backend is still a window manager,
but doesn't claim the manager selection.
Martin Graesslin