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.
EGL for X and EGL for Wayland backends are quite different. The main
motivation behind this change is to prepare the EGL backends for
monitoring vblank events. Things work quite differently depending on
if the EGL backend renders onto a toplevel window or overlay window.
Since the Screens class is a convenience wrapper around AbstractOutput
objects that come from the Platform, it should not be platform-specific.
By dropping createScreens(), output-related code becomes simpler.
This change moves the XRender backend to platformsupport directory,
similar to the OpenGL and the QPainter backend. This allows to put
platform-specific logic in XRenderBackend.
Given that we now query the current X11 time stamp on Wayland, we can
enable synchronized resizing for Xwayland clients.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D29250
Summary:
EffectQuickView/Scene is a convenient class to render a QtQuick
scenegraph into an effect.
Current methods (such as present windows) involve creating an underlying
platform window which is expensive, causes a headache to filter out
again in the rest of the code, and only works as an overlay.
The new class exposes things more natively to an effect where we don't
mess with real windows, we can perform the painting anywhere in the view
and we don't have issues with hiding/closing.
QtQuick has both software and hardware accelerated modes, and kwin also
has 3 render backends. Every combination is supported.
* When used in OpenGL mode for both, we render into an FBO export the
texture ID then it's up to the effect to render that into a scene.
* When using software QtQuick rendering we blit into an image, upload
that into a KWinGLTexture which serves as an abstraction layer and
render that into the scene.
* When using GL for QtQuick and XRender/QPainter in kwin everything is
rendered into the internal FBO, blit and exported as an image.
* When using software rendering for both an image gets passed directly.
Mouse and keyboard events can be forwarded, only if the effect
intercepts them.
The class is meant to be generic enough that we can remove all the
QtQuick code from Aurorae.
The intention is also to replace EffectFrameImpl using this backend and
we can kill all of the EffectFrame code throughout the scenes.
The close button in present windows will also be ported to this,
simplifiying that code base.
Classes that handle the rendering and handling QML are intentionally
split so that in the future we can have a declarative effects API create
overlays from within the same context. Similar to how one can
instantiate windows from a typical QML scene.
Notes:
I don't like how I pass the kwin GL context from the backends into the
effect, but I need something that works with the library separation. It
also currently has wayland problem if I create a QOpenGLContext before
the QPA is set up with a scene - but I don't have anything better?
I know for the EffectFrame we need an API to push things through the
effects stack to handle blur/invert etc. Will deal with that when we
port the EffectFrame.
Test Plan: Used in an effect
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag
Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag
Subscribers: zzag, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24215
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:
Represent outputs in the X11 session via AbstractOutput. For that we
move all Wayland specific parts of AbstractOutput into a new subclass
AbstractWaylandOutput and let the outputs of our Wayland backends inherit
from there.
This should allow us to get rid of the Screens class later on.
Test Plan: Manually in X session.
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag, davidedmundson
Subscribers: ngraham, zzag, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D19208
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:
This is meant to address Bug 372114. The problem here is that the KConfig
object (and its derivatives), that the freeze detection thread needs to
record the freeze, are not thread safe. When it happens that the main
thread is in fact not frozen, it is possible that the two stomp on each
other's KConfig object.
The solution applied here is to use the KSharedConfig::openConfig
function, which is thread safe, on the freeze detection thread. As was
mentioned by Martin Flöser in the discussion, the thread needs to obey
the name of the main config file of KWin, which can change in the future.
As a secondary issue, this patch also turns off KCrash reporting for
aborts due to a freeze being detected. IMO it is not very user friendly
to still show a crash report to the user, even after this bug is fixed,
for the deliberate SIGABRT. Maybe a less intrusive notification could be
used to tell the user why effects are suddenly disabled?
I've been using kwin with this change for several weeks now and it makes
the restarts of kwin due to freezes unobtrusive. However, most (I would
say almost all) of these freezes are actually instances where the system
is being slow after eg. screen resolution is changed.
BUG: 372114
FIXED-IN: 5.11.3
Reviewers: #kwin, graesslin
Reviewed By: #kwin, graesslin
Subscribers: ngraham, graesslin, anthonyfieroni, cfeck, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D8356
Summary:
On Wayland we have the sync disabled as it doesn't work properly. This
allows us to also move the sync event handling into the X11 standalone
platform.
The code is slightly refactored: instead of passing the event to each
Client, we search for the matching Client. For that the SyncAlaram struct
is added to public section of Client. The method to handle the sync
doesn't need the event any more and is moved from events.cpp to
client.cpp.
Test Plan:
Run Xephyr+kwin_x11, resized a window and verified through
gdb breakpoint that the sync still works
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel
Tags: #plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7942
Summary:
The Platform API is extended by a call to create the EffectsHandler. In
X11 standalone Platform a new EffectsHandlerImplX11 is added which
contains the X11 only parts of the EffectsHandler, such as grabbing the
X keyboard and the X11 mouse interception window.
The EffectsHandlerImpl gains some virtual methods for the parts which
are now done in the X11 specific implementation. In return we get rid of
lots of if-else structures checking for the operation mode.
Test Plan: Only compile tested.
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7955
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:
A dedicated X11EventFilter is added and created from the X11Cursor in
case we have XFixes. This means some more X11 specific code is now only
on X11.
Test Plan: Only compile tested.
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7843
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
Summary:
Not needed except for X11/non-composited usage, so should be in the
plugin instead of core.
Platform API is extended to create a decoration renderer.
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7444
Summary:
Creating the OutlineVisual is moved into the Platform API. The default
implementation creates the composited OutlineVisual. The X11 standalone
platform overrides it and creates the non composited outline in case no
compositing is used.
Test Plan:
Run kwin_x11 with KWIN_COMPOSE=N and KWIN_COMPOSE=X,
non composited outline and composited outline loaded
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7450
Summary:
This change splits out the X11 specific event filtering into a dedicated
X11EventFilter. It is created in the x11 standalone platform plugin when
the first Edge is being created.
Some of the X11 specific code is removed from ScreenEdges, though more
refactoring is possible in ScreenEdges to share more code between X11
specific and generic implementation.
Test Plan: Run KWin on Xephyr, screen edge approach effect still shows
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7406
Summary:
Based on the work of 3f4995fb9b this change
introduces a GlxContextAttributeBuilder to make the requesting of context
attributes cleaner, more verbose and less error prone copy and paste.
Test Plan:
Switched between Core and legacy and verified the output;
extended auto test
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel
Tags: #plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D6411
Summary:
The overlay window is only needed for the X11 based compositors. Given
that it is better suited in the X11 platform. Unfortunately it is not
possible to completely move it into the platform plugin as it is still
referenced in KWin core (e.g. SceneXRender). Due to that the
OverlayWindow in KWin core is turned into a pure virtual class with the
implementation being moved into the plugin.
The platform API gains a new virtual factory method which is only
implemented in the X11 platform.
Test Plan: Compiles
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7193
Summary:
It's only needed by the GLX backend, so only find if we have GLX at all
and only link where needed. As it was handled incorrectly before, it's
now using proper ifdef.
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D3448
Summary:
A new virtual method is added to Platform:
startInteractiveWindowSelection
The interactive window selection enters a mode where the user can select
a window through the pointer or keyboard device. The cursor is turned
into a crosshair cursor, unless another cursor name is provided (e.g.
pirate for kill window).
Once a window is selected the provided callback method is invoked with
the selected Toplevel as argument. In case the user cancelled the
selection a nullptr argument is passed in.
Currently it's only implemented by the X11 standalone platform using the
logic from KillWindow. Just instead of killing the window the callback
is invoked.
KillWindow loses the X11 implementation and interacts with the new
functionality in Platform by providing a lambda function for the
killing.
Test Plan: Killing of X11 windows is still possible
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D3363
At the same time the xinput2 integration is split out of X11Cursor
and made a standalone part of the platform plugin. XInput integration
is nowadays not only used by the cursor position polling, but also
for modifier only shortcuts.
By splitting it out the modifier shortcuts start to work also when
one doesn't have anything requesting a mouse position polling.
This also simplifies the conditional builds: xinput integration is
only included if we have support for it at compile time without having
to have many ifdefs in the cursor implementation. For the inclusion of
cursor in the kcmkwin this also removes all the ifdefs.
The key events are only requested if we have xinput 2.1. Otherwise we
would not get all raw events if the input device gets grabbed.
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma_on_wayland
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #plasma_on_wayland, #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2473
Removes a diversion between X11 and Wayland. The base class Platform
creates an instance of class Edge with plugin implementations being
able to create a different type.
The X11StandalonePlugin does that and creates a WindowBasedEdge. For
this the implementation of WindowBasedEdge is moved from screenedges
into the plugin.
Unfortunately an ifdef is needed to make the screenedge test still
work as expected. This should be improved in future, e.g. have a good
way to load the platform plugin from the tests.
Reviewers: #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel
Projects: #plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D1419
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
Summary:
It's only needed by the standalone x11 variant. This allows us to
simplify the creation of the OpenGLBackend: it's created by the
platform plugin - we don't need custom complex logic.
Reviewers: #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel
Projects: #plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D1392
By moving XRandrScreens the creation of screens gets simplified a lot
as there is no need to have windowing system specific init code. It all
just goes through the platform.
This also marks the point where the first X11 specific code is removed
from kwin_wayland.
Reviewers: #plasma, sebas
Subscribers: plasma-devel
Projects: #plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D1355
The plugin does not much. It's the most basic plugin we can have to
be loaded from kwin_x11.
Unlike the wayland platform plugins it gets installed to:
org.kde.kwin.platforms
