The Compositor contains nothing that can potentially get dirty and need
repainting.
As is, the advantages of this move aren't really noticeable, but it
makes sense with multiple scenes.
Backend parts are far from ideal, they can be improved later on as we
progress with the scene redesign.
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.
If an output is disconnected, the Workspace will update the
Toplevel.output property for all windows that are on that output, then
it will call AbstractClient::checkWorkspacePosition() to fix window
position.
That may result in some windows partially sticking outside visible area
because AbstractClient::checkWorkspacePosition() has no idea what output
the window was.
This change addresses that problem by delaying updating the
Toplevel.output property so AbstractClient::checkWorkspacePosition()
could pick better window placement.
When geometry updates are blocked, the output doesn't get updated. This
breaks Workspace::clientArea() overload that takes only the window.
Previously, clientArea() would look up the output where the window is
every time it's called, so the fact that the screen id or AbstractOutput
is unsynchronized with the frame geometry was irrelevant.
This change restores the old behavior as 5.23 is affected by the
output() being out of sync with the frameGeometry(). Specifically, when
kwin starts managing an X11 window, it will block geometry updates,
setup the window, e.g. make it fullscreen, and unblock geometry updates.
Since Workspace::clientArea(clientArea, Toplevel) uses the output(),
X11Client::setFullScreen() will most likely put the X11 window at a
wrong output if it's called inside X11Client::manage().
BUG: 443787
On X11, there are four input models. With some input models, it's okay
if the window manager calls XSetInputFocus(), with others, the wm has to
ask the client to make a XSetInputFocus() request.
If kwin wants a client to take input focus, kwin will add the client
to the should_get_focus list, which contains all the windows that
are about to get input focus. Clients are popped from the list upon
receiving FOCUS_IN events.
A client will be added to the should_get_focus list even if kwin thinks
that the client already has input focus because communication between
the wm and xorg is async, anything can happen with input focus in meanwhile.
On the other hand, the wm may sometimes focus the null window if no
window should contain the input focus. The issue is that the
should_get_focus list is not cleaned up in that case, which can lead to
Workspace::mostRecentlyActivatedClient() returning wrong client and
possibly other async related issues.
We don't have such madness on Wayland as the compositor is in charge of
handling input focus.
This change makes Workspace::focusToNull() clear the should_get_focus,
which is reasonable. We need to deactivate "in-flight" focus requests.
This also fixes the bug where fullscreen Wayland windows don't go above
docks and panels due to Workspace::mostRecentlyActivatedClient() returning
bad client.
BUG: 439405
BUG: 395919
This decouples the management of Shadow from the scene window and allows
multiple items share the same Shadow.
Currently, kwin has a single scene graph, but it makes sense to create a
scene graph per output as they could have different layers, etc. This
would also allow QtQuick share more textures with kwin, which is worth
doing for optimization purposes in the future.
Active output is a window management concept. It indicates what output
new windows have to be placed on if they have no output hint. So
Workspace seems to be a better place for it than the Screens class, which
is obsolete.
This allows us to drop obsolete Screens class.
Currently, the Screens class is a thin wrapper around platform outputs +
some extra tracked state, e.g. active output, workspace geometry, etc.
This is a little helper that can be very convenient with our transition
from int-based screen ids to AbstractOutput.
As is, the main issue with int screen ids is that they are extremely
dynamic.
With AbstractOutput being used more heavily, it makes sense to have
something like Screens::number() in the Platform class. As is, the steps
to get an output for a given point are awkward - first, get the screen
id, then use the screen id to get the output.
Currently, the EffectsHandler has two signals that are emitted when the
combined geometry of all outputs change - virtualScreenGeometryChanged()
and screenGeometryChanged(). Having two signals is most likely a
historical artifact.
This change untangles the screenGeometryChanged() signal from the
Workspace and makes it the same as the virtualScreenGeometryChanged()
signal.
The new overloads take the client (as context) and the desired screen id
or a point and return the client area.
The main motivation behind this change is to make the transition to the
new virtual desktop model where a window can be on several desktops less
painful.
This allows changing the type of desk to QVector<VirtualDesktop *>.
Based on the dont_activate flag, Workspace::sendClientToDesktop() will
try to focus the window if it's moved to the current virtual desktop.
In order to implement that, it needs to know whether the window has been
on the current desktop. c->isOnDesktop(desk) is a much sophisticated way
to do that.
If a window is on several desktops, AbstractClient::desktop() will
return the id of the last desktop.
For example, if a window is on virtual desktops A and B, the desktop()
function will return the id of desktop B. This can be the culprit for
bugs such as window snapping not working as expected when moving a
window on virtual desktop A, e.g.
- moved window is on desktops A, and C. desktop() returns the id of C
- snap candidate (l) is on desktops A, and B. desktop() returns the id
of B
Even though the snap candidate window and the moved window are both on
the same desktop (A), the moved window won't be snapped because the
desktop() function returns garbage values.
To fix that, the workspace needs to check whether the window is on the
current desktop.
For what it's worth, that's also how the workspace handles windows being
on multiple activities.
This patch has one behavioral change - raiseOrLowerClient() will not
work if the client is not on the current virtual desktop.
However, raiseOrLowerClient() can be called only in two cases:
* user triggers the raise or lower shortcut for the active client. Since
the active client is on the current virtual desktop, it's not an issue
* an x11 window restacks itself. It makes no sense if an x11 window
restacks itself while it's inactive or not on current virtual desktop.
Also, the Opposite restack mode is rarely used, some window managers
don't even bother implementing it. So, having such a constraint should
not be a problem.
The main reason for not allowing raiseOrLowerClient() for windows that
are not on the current virtual desktop is that a window can be on
multiple virtual desktops. If a window is on A and B virtual desktops,
the only logical option is to toggle stacking position if the window is
on the current desktop. It's the only viable option as kwin does not
maintain per virtual desktop stacking order.
It is error-prone to have multiple sources for the same data. If the
base implementation (Compositor::compositing()) changes, other helpers
can get out of sync.
When finishing compositing, Workspace::compositing() will return true,
but it will be preferred if it returns false instead so kwin can properly
update x11 window visibility status, etc.
Instead of checking whether the compositor has a scene, check the status
of the compositor. It will not be "On" during teardown.
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.
We have 2 equivalent code paths for x11 and wayland unnecessarily, unify
them under the same method.
Rename m_clients to m_x11Clients so that it's clear what the difference
is between m_clients and m_allClients.
