Summary:
KDE is known for having a strong view on the client-side decorations vs
server-side decorations issue. The main argument raised against CSD is
that desktop will look less consistent when clients start drawing window
decorations by themselves, which is somewhat true. It all ties to how
well each toolkit is integrated with the desktop environment.
KDE doesn't control the desktop market on Linux. Another big "player"
is GNOME. Both KDE and GNOME have very polarized views on in which
direction desktop should move forward. The KDE community is pushing more
toward server-side decorations while the GNOME community is pushing
more toward client-side decorations. Both communities have developed
great applications and it's not rare to see a GNOME application being
used in KDE Plasma. The only problem is that these different views are
not left behind the curtain and our users pay the price. Resizing GTK
clients in Plasma became practically impossible due to resize borders
having small hit area.
When a client draws its window decoration, it's more likely that it also
draws the drop-shadow around the decoration. The compositor must know
the extents of the shadow so things like snapping and so on work as
expected. And here lies the problem... While the xdg-shell protocol has
a way to specify such things, the NetWM spec doesn't have anything like
that. There's _GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS in the wild, however the problem with
it is that it's a proprietary atom, which is specific only to GTK apps.
Due to that, _GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS wasn't implemented because implementing
anything like that would require major changes in how we think about
geometry.
Recent xdg-shell window geometry patches adjusted geometry abstractions
in kwin to such a degree that it's very easy to add support for client
side decorated clients on X11. We just have to make sure that the
X11Client class provides correct buffer geometry and frame geometry when
the gtk frame extents are set.
Even though the X11 code is feature frozen, I still think it's worth
to have _GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS support in kwin because it will fix the resize
issues. Also, because KWin/Wayland is unfortunately far from becoming
default, it will help us with testing some implementation bits of the
window geometry from xdg-shell.
BUG: 390550
FIXED-IN: 5.18.0
Test Plan:
Things like quick tiling, maximizing, tiling scripts and so on work as
expected with GTK clients.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: cblack, trmdi, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24660
Summary:
Currently kwin opens a second ICE connection to ksmserver in order to
tell the state of kwin's whether we're logging out and saving clients or
not.
This requires that kwin launches after ksmserver to have the connection
which is a dependency I want to break.
Practically this code is already ksmserver specific as it relies on some
custom code that sends the first saveState request to kwin first.
Instead we can replace it with a bespoke IPC over DBus and siplify the
code both end. This will allow several other future enhancements that we
want with regards to handling the session state, as well as make an
effort platform agnostic session management, as well as cleaning up some
complex code.
Ksmserver calls into kwin, rather than having kwin watch ksmserver state
to allow us make sure it's race free.
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag
Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag
Subscribers: romangg, zzag, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24862
Summary: sizeForClientSize checks the minimum and the maximum size.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24473
Summary:
This code has been commented for more than a decade. Given that no any
useful comment is provided along the commented code, it's difficult to
say what exactly we need to fix. From the other side, the commented
code does nothing.
Reviewers: #kwin, romangg
Reviewed By: #kwin, romangg
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24472
Summary:
In order to properly implement xdg_surface.set_window_geometry we need
two kinds of geometry - frame and buffer. The frame geometry specifies
visible bounds of the client on the screen, excluding client-side drop
shadows. The buffer geometry specifies rectangle on the screen that the
attached buffer or x11 pixmap occupies on the screen.
This change renames the geometry property to frameGeometry in order to
reflect the new meaning assigned to it as well to make it easier to
differentiate between frame geometry and buffer geometry in the future.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24334
Summary:
Currently each managed X11 client is represented with an instance of
Client class, however the name of that class is very generic and the
only reason why it's called that way is because historically kwin
was created as an x11 window manager, so "Client" was a sensible choice.
With introduction of wayland support, things had changed and therefore
Client needs to be renamed to X11Client in order to better reflect what
that class stands for.
Renaming of Client to X11Client was agreed upon during the last KWin
sprint.
Test Plan: Compiles, the test suite is still green.
Reviewers: #kwin, romangg
Reviewed By: #kwin, romangg
Subscribers: romangg, davidedmundson, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24184
Summary:
Because KWin is a very old project, we use three kinds of null pointer
literals: 0, NULL, and nullptr. Since C++11, it's recommended to use
nullptr keyword.
This change converts all usages of 0 and NULL literal to nullptr. Even
though it breaks git history, we need to do it in order to have consistent
code as well to ease code reviews (it's very tempting for some people to
add unrelated changes to their patches, e.g. converting NULL to nullptr).
Test Plan: Compiles.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson, romangg
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson, romangg
Subscribers: romangg, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23618
Summary:
This has been commented out since 2014, I doubt it will come back.
This is a big amount of code, maintenance will be easier without it.
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag
Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag
Subscribers: romangg, graesslin, kwin
Tags: #kwin, #documentation
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23069
Summary:
Switch to Q_ASSERT in order to make code a bit more consistent. We have
places where both assert and Q_ASSERT are used next to each other. Also,
distributions like Ubuntu don't strip away assert(), let's hope that
things are a bit different with Q_ASSERT.
Test Plan: Compiles.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: romangg, davidedmundson, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23605
Summary:
This hack seems to be deactivated by default nowadays and I did not find an
option in the KCMs to activate it. Git blame shows some last commits from
around 2012 to the functions, but they only deal with code style.
Also even if it would be enabled, in light of Wayland we don't want some
roque XWayland client go bonkers via this hack.
This patch removes the code path in order to decrease complexity and ease
future changes to the fullscreen handling overall.
Test Plan: Manually and autotests pass.
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag
Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag
Subscribers: zzag, graesslin, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Maniphest Tasks: T11098
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D18157
Summary:
KWin is not only an X11 compositing window manager, but also a Wayland
compositor. The Compositor class is used in both cases so in general it
would be nice to keep it as much as possible generic.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D19879
Summary:
So far KWin did not re-evaluate the window rules when the Client's
window class changes. Window class is the main (static) feature the rule
selection is based on. For dynamic changing mapping features like caption
KWin does re-evaluate the rules.
The reason for KWin to not evaluate when the class changes is that KWin
expects the class not to change. From ICCCM section 4.1.2.5:
> This property must be present when the window leaves the Withdrawn
> state and may be changed only while the window is in the Withdrawn
> state. Window managers may examine the property only when they start
> up and when the window leaves the Withdrawn state, but there should be
> no need for a client to change its state dynamically.
Unfortunately there are prominent applications such as Spotify which
violate this rule and do change the window class dynamically. While this
is a clear ICCCM violation there is nothing which really forbids it (may
not != must not) and nothing which forbids KWin to react on changes.
As also libtaskmanager started to react on it, it makes sense to also
hook up the required bits for window rules. After all KWin detects
changes to the window class for some time already and has the
functionality to evaluate the rules. So all there is, is one connect
which improves the situation for our users, while at the same time it
should be rather risk free. If a setup window rule breaks after this
change it's due to the client not being ICCCM compliant.
Test Plan:
I don't use any of the affected applications, so it's only
tested with the new added unit test.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D16670
This reverts commit 8a2a00a4ca.
It was likely wrongly pushed before the KWayland changes, so it won't
compile.
Feel free to reinstate it once the dependent changes (KWayland) are in.
CCMAIL: bundito@gmail.com
CCMAIL: kwin@kde.org
Summary:
Adding "SkipSwitcher" to the API, following discussion in
BUG 375921
Depends on / related to D11925 and D11924
Reviewers: hein, #kwin, graesslin
Reviewed By: #kwin, graesslin
Subscribers: davidedmundson, #plasma, ngraham, kwin, #kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D11926
Summary:
This allows to override the desktop file name.
CCBUG: 351055
Test Plan: Created a window rule for telegram-desktop to fix the icon
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D11266
Summary:
So far window rule specific functionality was only implemented in Client
and in ShellClient there was only a dummy implementation. This change
moves the client_rules member variable from Client to AbstractClient.
Areas which would not compile anymore are adjusted.
This is a first step to get window rule support for Wayland windows.
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D8090
This is what 7ce380497f tried to do (and got reverted by my previous commit).
The approach is basically the same, just temporarily fake that the window
is on all activities, thus it will be temporarily shown for the session
interact, but this time there seem to be no broken side-effects (and if there
are, they'll be at least limited to activities and not break virtual desktops).
Also, 'needsSessionInteract' was a misnomer - it certainly wasn't set for all
windows that needed session interaction. Just call it what it really is.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D5614
The member variable is not what determines which desktop a window is on,
it's more like caching the state. Therefore trying to fake a new value
eventually leads to inconsistencies, e.g. having KWrite open with unsaved
changes on inactive desktop results in the window ending up on all desktops
after session save (both successful and cancelled).
This pretty much reverts the whole 7ce380497f that introduced this and also
a0a976885c that tried to fix some of the problems resulting from it.
The original problem of session saving of windows of inactive activities still
remains, to be fixed by another commit.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D5613
This brings back global menu support in KWin.
The DBusMenu infrastructure is different that we just read the DBus service name and
menu object path from the windows rather than passing around window IDs on DBus which
won't work on Wayland.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D3089
Summary:
KWindowSystem provides a KDE specific property for the desktop file
name. This allows KWin to take the icon from the desktop file. The
advantage from the desktop file is that KWin normally gets higher
resolution icons than provided through the xproperty based icons used
previously. If the desktop file does not provide an icon name, KWin
falls back to the previous implementation.
As on Wayland the icon is taken from the desktop file name already the
code for X11 and Wayland is merged in AbstractClient. Also to the
PlasmaWindowInterface the appId is taken from the new desktop file
instead of the resourceName. Due to that for Xwayland windows where KWin
knows the desktop file name it can be passed to PlasmaWindowInterface.
This allows e.g. the task manager to better map the windows to
applications and provide better icons. Also it means that icons do not
need to be passed as bitmap data to the clients.
Test Plan:
Verified that icon is taking from desktop file if provided and
from X property if not provided and that Wayland windows still have icon.
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma_on_wayland, hein
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #plasma_on_wayland, #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D3177
Summary:
Plasmashell's desktop windows are RGBA which forces the compositor to
perform blending and render the background. That is absolutely pointless
as there is no window behind the desktop window it could blend to. All it
does is destroying KWin's more optimized code path and forcing additional
rendering which will never be visible (including shader push/pop).
With this change KWin forces desktop windows (both X11 and Wayland) to
be considered as opaque by setting the depth to 24. Thus blending is
disabled and the background is not rendered.
Test Plan:
Verified with apitrace that KWin goes in the opaque rendering
path for desktop windows.
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2382
a) When a group-transient is modal, it still needs to be
on the current or all virtual desktops if *any* of the
blocked clients is
BUG: 354090
FIXED-IN: 5.5
b) ignore demanded virtual desktop for transients. Notably modal transients
should appear where their parent is, and not drag that around. All others
also better show up above their parent and not a distant virtual desktop
REVIEW: 125758
the pseudo maximization sanitizes huge windows and
was/is the way kdelibs KMainWindow indicates maximization
It must however build up on the hinted maximization
and not MaximizeRestore, or it may falsely destroy
the maximization hint from the client (which now works
in KF5 ;-)
BUG: 352185
REVIEW: 125037
FIXED-IN: 5.5
AbstractClient::mainClients is virtual and overriden in Client,
allMainClients has only a common implementation in AbstractClient.
In activation.cpp we still need one case where a temporary ClientList
needs to be constructed. Once transients are fully migrated that should
be removable again.
This is a temporary workaround for bug 349992 which causes freezes
during startup as kwin and kamd dead lock each other on DBus.
To workaround we don't call Activities::create and check in every
usage of Activities::self() whether the pointer is valid.
As a result kwin_wayland now starts pretty fast.
CCBUG: 349992
At the same time the functionality for the "original_skip_taskbar" is
splitted out. This removes the weird API with two boolean arguments to
the set method. Instead there is a dedicated method for the orignal
skip taskbar state which delegates to regular skipTaksbar.
... not them becoming visible.
Latter doesn't work for most cases (unminimizing)
for obvious reasons (they're not minimized) and
when a new window is mapped, the focus stealing
prevention seems a good filter
(if it's not good enough to gain the focus,
it's not good enough to break the state either)
REVIEW: 123783
CCBUG: 346837
CCBUG: 346933
CCBUG: 347212
This is an alternative approach suggested by the
NETWM spec.
The advantage is, that windows are not minimized
at all what apparently lead to some confusion
about the nature of the mode (which was abused
to tidy up) and a secret config key to allow for
that unrelated behavior.
Instead the ShowDesktopIsMinimizeAll key is removed
and replaced by a dedicated script + shortcut.
Bonus: less code to remember "minimized" windows =)
Adapt to API changes introduced by b62e8888cd39301e00ad98dfe791fa66676408fb.
It adds DecoratedClient::color(group, role) for getting colors that are
not included in QPalette. Breeze used to read these colors from
kdeglobals, breaking per window color schemes. KWin now handles reading
these colors along with QPalette loading with DecorationPalette.
REVIEW: 122883
A wrapper class for MotifHints is added to xcbutils. This class manages
the information about the read Motif hints, so that Client doesn't need
to have a copy of the read states.
The class is designed in a way that during Client::manage we get rid of
another roundtrip.
REVIEW: 122378
Xcb::GeometryHints is a convenient wrapper around the size hints
as described in ICCCM combined with the sanity checks so far applied
by KWin after reading the property.
Instead of accessing the members of the property structure, we are
now using the convenience methods.
During ::manage no further actions are triggered when reading the
size hints. Only when they are read later on the previous checks
are applied. During ::manage they can be ignored as it had a dedicated
isManaged check.
The method ::resizeWithCheck got a new argument of type xcb_gravity_t
which defaults to 0. This is needed from ::configureRequest which so
far temporarily changed the xSizeHints structure. By passing as an
argument this is no longer needed.
REVIEW: 122185
