kwin/unmanaged.h
Martin Gräßlin 996ee34e14 Remove the unredirect fullscreen windows functionality
Summary:
Rational: unredirect fullscreen windows is a weird beast. It's intended
to make fullscreen windows "faster" by not compositing that screen. But
that doesn't really work as KWin jumps out of that condition pretty
quickly. E.g. whenever a tooltip window is shown. KWin itself has a
better functionality by supporting to block compositing completely.
The complete code was full of hacks around it to try to ensure that
things don't break.

Overall unredirect fullscreen has always been the odd one. We had it
because a compositor needs to have it, but it never got truly integrated.
E.g. effects don't interact with it properly so that some things randomly
work, others don't. Will it trigger the screenedge, probably yes, but
will it show the highlight: properly no.

By removing the functionality we finally acknowledge that this mode is
not maintained and has not been maintained for years and that we do not
intend to support it better in future. Over the years we tried to make
it more and more hidden: it's disabled for Intel GPUs, because it used
to crash KWin. It's marked as an "expert" option, etc.

It's clearly something we tried to hide from the user that it exists.

For Wayland the whole unredirect infrastructure doesn't make sense
either. There is no such thing as "unredirecting". We might make use
of passing buffers directly to the underlying stack, but that will be
done automatically when we know it can be done, not by some magic is
this a window of specific size.

Test Plan:
Compiles, cannot really test as I am an Intel user who never
had that working.

Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma, #vdg

Subscribers: kwin

Tags: #kwin

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2180
2016-08-04 14:48:35 +02:00

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/********************************************************************
KWin - the KDE window manager
This file is part of the KDE project.
Copyright (C) 2006 Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@kde.org>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*********************************************************************/
#ifndef KWIN_UNMANAGED_H
#define KWIN_UNMANAGED_H
#include <netwm.h>
#include "toplevel.h"
namespace KWin
{
class Unmanaged
: public Toplevel
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
explicit Unmanaged();
bool windowEvent(xcb_generic_event_t *e);
bool track(Window w);
static void deleteUnmanaged(Unmanaged* c);
virtual int desktop() const;
virtual QStringList activities() const;
virtual QPoint clientPos() const;
virtual QSize clientSize() const;
virtual QRect transparentRect() const;
virtual Layer layer() const {
return UnmanagedLayer;
}
NET::WindowType windowType(bool direct = false, int supported_types = 0) const;
public Q_SLOTS:
void release(ReleaseReason releaseReason = ReleaseReason::Release);
protected:
virtual void debug(QDebug& stream) const;
private:
virtual ~Unmanaged(); // use release()
// handlers for X11 events
void configureNotifyEvent(xcb_configure_notify_event_t *e);
};
} // namespace
#endif