kwin disables ptrace for a good reason - to prevent other processes from
attaching to kwin and snooping sensitive data or taking control of kwin.
But, that will also make things such as memory statistics unavailable to
read, etc.
On the other hand, the supported platforms where kwin runs all have
security measures in places to forbid shady processes ptrace'ing kwin.
For example, on Linux it's YAMA.
On Linux, by default, a process can ptrace only its descendants. For
example, this can be used by debuggers; otherwise you would need to be
the superuser to attach to any process.
This change drops our ptrace logic in favor of system provided security
measures. It allows the System Monitor to gather kwin's memory usage
statistics and also simplifies code, the current debugger detection
logic is not really robust.
If the system provided security measures are proven to be insufficient,
we can add the ptrace disabling logic back, but it would be great to
avoid that because system monitor won't be able to gather resource usage
statistics, which can be useful for detecting memory leaks in plasma
wayland session, etc.
Notifications are really only useful in a setting with a full
shell environment where there is a notification center to display them.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Fischer <victoria.fischer@mbition.io>
None of the features it adds ontop of `QComboBox` are used.
Allows to drop the dependency on KCompletion.
Signed-off-by: Eike Hein <eike.hein@mbition.io>
The ifdefs for have_gbm obfuscate the code unnecessarily - the drm backend
is not a great experience with qpainter, so in practice noone should ship
it without gbm anyways.
The proprietary NVidia driver now supports gbm, which vastly improves the
user experience. For older devices that will not get gbm support dropping
EglStreams will likely not have a big impact as it has several session breaking
issues anyways.
By removing the backend a lot of logic can be simplified, most notably multi-gpu.
I just got a build failure because I hadn't updated KDecoration to
include 195bcf36df.
Bump the minimum version to trigger a CMake error instead of a
compilation failure. Since we expect to be using the same version of
KDecoration as KWin, this change uses ${PROJECT_VERSION} as the minimum
version.
The Xrender backend was added at the time when OpenGL drivers were not
particularly stable. Nowadays though, it's a totally different situation.
The OpenGL render backend has been the default one for many years. It's
quite stable, and it allows implementing many advanced features that
other render backends don't.
Many features are not tested with it during the development cycle; the
only time when it is noticed is when changes in other parts of kwin break
the build in the xrender backend. Effectively, the xrender backend is
unmaintained nowadays.
Given that the xrender backend is effectively unmaintained and our focus
being shifted towards wayland, this change drops the xrender backend in
favor of the opengl backend.
Besides being de-facto unmaintained, another issue is that QtQuick does
not support and most likely will never support the Xrender API. This
poses a problem as we want thumbnail items to be natively integrated in
the qtquick scene graph.
As is, kwin with the drm backend results in the most pleasant user
experience on Wayland. Given that and the fbdev being about to be
dropped, making libdrm a required dependency seems a reasonable decision.
Re-use Qt's implementation of handling non-Latin layouts here
For full ASCII range support (Alt+`, etc.) Qt needs to be patched still,
see QTBUG-90611
BUG: 375518
At the moment, the session code is far from being extensible. If we
decide to add support for libseatd, it will be a challenging task with
the current design of session management code. The goal of this
refactoring is to fix that.
Another motivation behind this change is to prepare session related code
for upstreaming to kwayland-server where it belongs.
-listen <fd> option is deprecated in favor of the -listenfd option. This
change makes kwin query whether Xwayland supports the -listenfd option
at build time. If the pkg-config file is missing, we'll use the old listen
option.
