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Martin Gräßlin
bfa9646d1d [wayland] Add a virtual framebuffer backend
A new backend which doesn't present the rendered output. It uses a
QPainter scene, renders to a QImage but doesn't present it anywhere.
Thus a real virtual backend.

By exporting the environment variable KWIN_WAYLAND_VIRTUAL_SCREENSHOTS
the backend creates a temporary dir, prints the path to std-out and
saves each rendered frame into that directory. Of course with exit it
will be deleted again.
2015-10-02 10:58:33 +02:00
Martin Gräßlin
5d946e3762 Make X11_XCB a build dependency of X11 windowed backend
Let's rather not build the plugin if we don't have the dependency
then building it without OpenGL support. Simplifies the code a bit
and makes the backend overall more useful and goes along with e.g.
the Wayland one which has EGL also as a hard dependency for the
plugin.

REVIEW: 124697
2015-08-12 11:39:20 +02:00
Martin Graesslin
e12400a675 Add a hwcomposer backend based on libhybris
This backend interacts with libhybris to create a hwcomposer which is
used for creating the egl context and surface. The initial version of
this backend is based on test_hwcomposer.cpp provided by libhybris.

Please note that using the hwcomposer backend requires a newer libepoxy,
the latest stable release is not able to bring up OpenGLES, so one needs
a master build of libepoxy.

Notes on licensing:
libhybris is Apache 2.0 licensed, which is not compatile with GPLv2.
But it is compatible with GPLv3. Thus the source files in the hwcomposer
backend are licensed GPLv3+ and not GPLv2+ as the rest of KWin. If one
uses KWin without the hwcomposer backend (which is obviously the default)
the licence doesn't change. But if the hwcomposer backend is used the
overall license of KWin changes to GPLv3+.
2015-05-08 10:28:52 +02:00
Martin Gräßlin
2220ae44c4 Create a plugin for each of the wayland backends
Each of the backends becomes a plugin. This allows kwin_wayland to load
the requested plugin and kwin itself doesn't need to link all the
libraries needed. E.g. libdrm is no longer linked if running kwin_x11.
Also this allows to create backends for the non-standard EGL platforms
(examples could be raspberrypi or Android devices).
2015-05-06 10:31:39 +02:00