This new backend allows to start a kwin_wayland server nested on an
X-Server by using a normal X11 window as output. This allows testing
kwin_wayland without needing to start another Wayland server first.
The behavior is triggered by using new command line arguments:
--windowed
--x11-display=<:0>
With optional --width and --height arguments.
In this mode the WaylandBackend is not created at all.
So far the backend is not fully integrated yet and only the QPainter
backend supports this mode.
This requires a change present in Qt 5.4.2, without the startup will
freeze. A warning message is shown if the compiled Qt version is not
at least 5.4.2. It's only a warning and an ifdef as distros might
backport the required change.
WaylandServer allows to create a ClientConnection which is intended for
QtWayland. This allows us to easily identify our "own" surfaces. The
created file descriptor is set as env variable WAYLAND_SOCKET prior to
creating the Application. Wayland will unset it after connecting, so we
don't need to unset it. This removes the hack of setting and resetting
the WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variable.
Creates a socketpair in WaylandServer and creates a ClientConnection for
Xwayland. The created file descriptor is passed to Xwayland through the
WAYLAND_SOCKET env variable.
QtWayland performs an eglInitialize in the main thread when for the first
time an OpenGL context/window is needed. In KWin's startup this happens
during initializing Scripting which creates a QDesktopWidget and triggers
the creation of a QWindow with a RasterGLSurface.
Calling eglInitialize in the main thread blocks as it calls wl_roundtrip.
We cannot just disable OpenGL as that would mean that we cannot use
QtQuick.
The workaround in this change is to create a QWindow with a
RasterGLSurface in a thread and call create on it. This ensures that
OpenGL gets initialized in the thread and doesn't block.
For Xwayland we need to have the Scene (and EglDisplay) created prior
to starting Xwayland and having X11. This requires creating the
Compositor before creating Workspace and starting Xwayland.
To support this the startup of Compositor is split into two parts:
prior and after Workspace creation.
The change might also be interesting for the kwin_x11 case as it could
result in the compositor being up in a quicker way.
This reorders the startup sequence quite a bit:
1. Create QAbstractEventDispatcher and install it on QCoreApplication
2. Create Application
3. Start Xwayland, use thread to get when its ready
4. Create xcb connection
5. perform startup
For using the wayland QPA it needs a patch in QtWayland which will be
part of Qt 5.4.2, otherwise it blocks.
Only --xwayland stays supported. The option --displayfd and --rootless
are always set. Simplifies the feature matrix and the other X servers
don't make any sense now that we can start a proper rootless Xwayland.
The WaylandServer is at the moment only used to support starting an
Xwayland. It does not support Wayland clients yet, so don't get
excited.
For Xwayland it's using the trick of creating the Display before the
QApplication is created with manual event dispatching.
The --xwayland option starts a rootles Xwayland server. If a
rootless Xwayland server is used OperationModeXwayland is used
which is introduced with this change as well.
Adjust the KWIN_DBUS_SERVICE_SUFFIX env variable in a multi-head
scenario instead of adjusting the "org.kde.kwin" DBus service which
we actually don't use in 5.x any more.
REVIEW: 122217
kwin_wayland gains a new command line option to enable libinput support.
This is needed as logind blanks the VT when the session controller
releases the control. So a nested compositor can seriously affect the
primary session. Thus it needs a dedicated command line switch to
enable it.
By default libinput support is disabled for kwin_x11 and can be enabled
for kwin_wayland in case KWin is compiled with libinput support.
The Wayland event queue is moved into a dedicated thread and a
new class is created for just creating the connection and listening
for events. The WaylandBackend creates the thread and uses an event
queue for the main thread.
REVIEW: 119761
KWin_Wayland still needs an X-Server. To simplify the development
setup the required X-Server can be started through a command line
argument together with KWin. Unfortunately the command line arguments
processing needs to be done by hand as QCommandLineParser only allows
processing after QApplication is created which requires the started
X Server.
The nested X-Server is started by forking the application and using
execlp to load the binary. In addition a pipe is created to allow the
X-Server to write the display number to once it's ready to connect and
by that KWin is ready to create the QApplication.
All of kwin except the main function goes into a new (private) library
called kwin. Two new kdeinit_executables are created:
* kwin_x11
* kwin_wayland
Both only use a dedicated main_x11.cpp and main_wayland.cpp with the
main function and a KWin::Application subclass and linking the new
kwin library.
The main idea behind this is to be able to perform more sane sanity
checks. E.g. on Wayland we don't need to first test whether we can
create an X11 connection. Instead we should abort if we cannot connect
to the Wayland display. Also the multi-head checks are not needed on
Wayland, etc. etc. As most of that code is in the main function to
simplify it's better to split.
This will also make it easier to diverge more easily in future. The
Wayland variant can introduce more suited command line arguments for
example. This already started by having the --replace option only
available in X11 variant. The Wayland backend is still a window manager,
but doesn't claim the manager selection.
