Currently, managed and override-redirect windows are split in two types:
X11Window and Unmanaged. While looking at it strictly from type
perspective, this is great. But it creates other problems, e.g. we need
to put shared X11-specific code in the base Window class or mess with
"base" classes.
As an alternative solution, this change merges the Unmanaged class into
the X11Window class and disables some functionality based on the value
of isUnmanaged().
X11Window::manage() is used to create a managed Window. X11Window::track()
is used to create an unmanaged Window.
As a first step to move away from having an external service remember output settings
for KWin, this commit introduces an output manager that can load configuration files
and generate new output configurations.
Currently, the normal window lifecycle looks as follows: create Window,
wait until it's shown, add it to Workspace, wait until it's closed,
create a Deleted, copy properties from the original window to the
deleted one, destroy the original window, wait until the last deleted
window reference is dropped.
There are a couple of issues with this design: we can't nicely
encapsulate X11 or Wayland specific implementation details if they need
to be accessed for closed windows; manual copying of properties is
cumbersome and error prone and we've had a dozen of cases where effects
worked incorrectly because some properties had not been copied.
The goal of this patch is to drop Deleted and extend the lifetime of the
original window, but with a special state set: Window::isDeleted().
The main danger is that somebody can try to do something with deleted
windows that they should not do, but on the other hand, such code needs
to be guarded with relevant checks too.
Currently windows are scattered in a few separate lists. If you need to
go through the windows, you have to do it piece by piece. On the other
hand, with the overhaul of window types, we've started converging
towards one universal type: Window. Keeping windows in the separate
buckets goes against this design.
Workspace::stackingOrder() already contains all windows. This change
repurposes Workspace::allClientList() from a list of "normal" windows to
all windows, i.e. Workspace::windows(), to be consistent.
There's one API change though. Scripting API will expose other window
types too. This is an intentional change so scripted effects could
operate with all windows. It also matches the current behavior observed
in libkwineffects, which exposes all windows as well.
This signal exists as a convenience helper, but it's not always emitted
as it's advertised to work. Instead of fixing it, let's drop the signal
to simplify virtual desktop code. Its effects can be accomplished by
monitoring Window::desktopChanged() and VirtualDesktopManager::currentChanged()
signals in effects and scripts where needed.
While not technically fitting for the name of the option, the behavior is what a user
would expect and it also matches with X11 (where the cursor goes to the touch position).
* Allow to do quick tiling to custom tile geometries, windows will be snapped to tiles when dragged with the shift modifier pressed.
* Tile geometries are screen specific.
* The global shortcut Meta+T will trigger a fullscreen configuration ui as a QML effect for the tiles which allows to add, remove and resize tiles
* UI and behavior is a bit similar to the Windows Fancy Zones addon: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzones
* Its main scope is to help the workflow with very big monitors, especially ultra wide ones, where most application don't make sense maximized to the full screen (eventually also support games to be full screened to a given tile instead of the whole screen)
* it should get also some bindings for scripting, as its ain goal is not to replicate other popular tiling window managers, but should give the popular kwin tiling scripts to have a more robust infrastructure
* it will eventually get support for a set of predefined layouts, but this is for a second phase
BUG: 438788
At the moment, the keyboard interception code in the effects system
relies on Qt code processing key events. However, since QDesktopWidget
is removed in Qt 6, this is a blocker for Qt 6 port.
This change ports the X11 backend to private xkb keymap as indicates in
the todo comment. It allows us to drop the last QDesktopWidget usage.
the existence of Window is bound to the one of workspace so it
will always be there.
We also need to check the window sizes before workspace is done
initializing,
otherwise when KWin restarts and there are maximized windows, they won't
be resized to take panels into account and will always span the full
screen.
Currently the Workspace processes output updates as they occur, e.g.
when the drm backend scans connectors, the Workspace will handle
hotplugged outputs one by one or if an output configuration changes the
mode of several outputs, the workspace will process output layout
updates one by one instead of handling it in one pass. The main reason
for the current behavior is simplicity.
However, that can create issues because it's possible that the output
layout will be temporarily in degenerate state and features such as
sticking windows to their outputs will be broken.
In order to fix that, this change makes the Workspace process batched
output updates. There are several challenges - disconnected outputs have
to be alive when the outputsQueried signal is emitted, the workspace
needs to determine what outputs have been added or removed on its own.
Placeholder outputs are not rendered so they don't need render data.
Also, this simplifies the control flow when the last real output is
removed. The Platform::screensQueried signal won't be emitted inside a
Platform::screensQueried slot.
Other policy enums are declared in options.h so let's do the same for
placement policy. Besides consistency, another advantage of moving the
enum in kwin namespace is that the enum could be forward declared.
Backends aren't the right layer to take care of placeholder outputs, and
don't really have enough information to do it either. This also fixes a
crash, because the placeholder output currently gets created too late
The main motivation behind moving kscreen integration to the
Workspace is to make output configuration work the same way
regardless of the backend and simplify the drm backend.
