At the moment, our frame scheduling infrastructure is still heavily
based on Xinerama-style rendering. Specifically, we assume that painting
is driven by a single timer, etc.
This change introduces a new type - RenderLoop. Its main purpose is to
drive compositing on a specific output, or in case of X11, on the
overlay window.
With RenderLoop, compositing is synchronized to vblank events. It
exposes the last and the next estimated presentation timestamp. The
expected presentation timestamp can be used by effects to ensure that
animations are synchronized with the upcoming vblank event.
On Wayland, every outputs has its own render loop. On X11, per screen
rendering is not possible, therefore the platform exposes the render
loop for the overlay window. Ideally, the Scene has to expose the
RenderLoop, but as the first step towards better compositing scheduling
it's good as is for the time being.
The RenderLoop tries to minimize the latency by delaying compositing as
close as possible to the next vblank event. One tricky thing about it is
that if compositing is too close to the next vblank event, animations
may become a little bit choppy. However, increasing the latency reduces
the choppiness.
Given that, there is no any "silver bullet" solution for the choppiness
issue, a new option has been added in the Compositing KCM to specify the
amount of latency. By default, it's "Medium," but if a user is not
satisfied with the upstream default, they can tweak it.
We have lots of inconsistency at the moment in CMakeLists.txt files. Most
of it is due to kwin being a very old project. This change hopefully fixes
all of it.
Summary:
To homogenize our backends and as another step to remove the Screens class
use the AbstractOutput class in the windowed X11 backend.
Test Plan: Manually in X session.
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag
Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag
Subscribers: davidedmundson, zzag, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D19207
Summary:
This change inits XInput extension, listens for touch events and
forwards them to our platform API. Thus touch events are forwarded on a
nested wayland session on X11.
Please note that I only tested this change on Xwayland.
Test Plan: Run nested kwin_wayland with two outputs and looked into debug console
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D17369
Summary:
This brings KWin a step closer to be run from build dir without having
to install at all. The integration tests are adjusted so that the
virtual platform is still found which makes the code be closer to what
is used in normal kwin_wayland.
Test Plan: ctest passes, manually verified correct plugin is loaded
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D17388
Summary:
Unfortunately a rather large change which required more refactoring than
initially expected. The main problem was that some parts needed to go
into platformsupport so that the platform plugins can link them. Due to
the rather monolithic nature of scene_opengl.h a few changes were
required:
* SceneOpenGL::Texture -> SceneOpenGLTexture
* SceneOpenGL::TexturePrivate -> SceneOpenGLTexturePrivate
* texture based code into dedicated files
* SwapProfiler code into dedicated files
* SwapProfiler only used in x11 variants
* Safety checks for OpenGL scene moved into the new plugin
* signal declared in SceneOpenGL moved to Scene, so that we don't need
to include SceneOpenGL in composite
Test Plan: Nested OpenGL compositor works
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7740
Summary:
Only needed for kwin_x11 variant (required for the non-composited
Outline). As that's nowadays in the x11 platform, we can move the
complete XRenderUtils support into the platform. Thus KWin core does
no longer require to link it.
Test Plan: Compiles
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7760
This change is similar to D7232 and moves the scene_qpainter into a
dedicated plugin. Compared to the XRender case it's more complicated as
the platform plugins need to implement a platform specific backend.
The base implementation for this part used to be in scene_qpainter. As
the idea is to completly move it away from KWin core it would be point
less to still have the backend definition in KWin core, but it cannot
be in the scene plugin as otherwise all platforms need to link the
plugin.
To solve this a new platformsupport subdirectory is added which contains
the scene platform backend as a static library. For the OpenGL scene such
a static library will also be required.
Test Plan: SceneQPainter test still passes, nested compositor still works
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel
Tags: #plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7259
Summary:
The EglOnXBackend is no longer needed in the core. It's only needed by
the two x11 platform plugins. To best share it, it's moved into a common
directory and compiled into a static library which in turn is linked by
the two plugins.
Reviewers: #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel
Projects: #plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D1413
