Virtual Kernel Mode Setting (vkms) is a virtual /dev/dri/card* device
not backed by any actual hardware. It's intended for testing purposes,
e.g. to run tests suites with a reproducable setup, or in continuous
integration pipelines.
Currently mutter don't have any tests that can run on top of vkms, but
will eventually get that. To prepare for the ability to do that, and
having said kernel module loaded without causing wierd issues with any
active session, add an udev rule that tells mutter to ignore any vkms
device.
Otherwise, when vkms is loaded, mutter would detect it, assume it's a
regular monitor, configure it as such, thus add a region of the stage
that ends up nowhere, which isn't very helpful. It might also conflict
with running actual tests that need to interact with vkms if the active
session has taken control of it.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1740>
Users who customized their workspace shortcuts before updating to
GNOME 40 are experiencing troubles when trying to use the same
keybinding for the horizontal shortcuts, because of hidden conflicts
with the vertical ones.
We can address this by registering the old shortcuts with Settings
without showing them in the UI, so that they are taken into account
by Settings' conflict resolution.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1740
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1814>
Lets wait until we have better ways to unredirect client buffers before
we start enabling KMS modifiers for amdgpu and nouveau; we end up with
mismatch between client buffer modifiers and primary plane modifier,
which right now needs to be the same for unredirection.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1792>
The intel DRM driver is known for not being able to handle multi head
setups when KMS modifiers are enabled, due to the implicitly selected
modifiers, while being more suitable for single head setups, cause
bandwidth issues when a certain number of monitor times resolution and
refresh rate is configured.
We don't yet support automatically finding a combination of modifiers
that work, and have because of this disabled KMS modifiers unless the
driver actually needs it.
Lets flip this configuration the other way around, changing the current
udev rule to decide wen to *disable* KMS modifier support, as it so that
only the Intel driver has this problem, while on the other hand, there
several drivers that requires modifiers to function at all.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1792>
Closing automatically Xwayland once all relevant X11 clients are gone is
inherently racy, if a new client comes along right at the time we're
killing Xwayland.
Fixing the possible race conditions between mutter, Xwayland and the X11
clients may take some time.
Meanwhile, make that an experimental feature "autoclose-xwayland".
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1673>
The X server, including Xwayland, can be compiled with different X11
extensions enabled at build time.
When an X11 extension is built in the X server, it's usually also
enabled at run time. Users can chose to disable those extensions at run
time using the X server command line option "-extension".
However, in the case of Xwayland, it is spawned automatically by the
Wayland compositor, and the command line options are not configurable
by users.
Add a new setting to disable a selected set of X extension in Xwayland
at startup, without needing to rebuild Xwayland.
Of course, if Xwayland is not built with a given extension support in
the first place (which is the default for the security extension for
example), that option has no effect.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1405
The check-alive feature is there for the user to be able to terminate
frozen applications more easily. However, sometimes applications are
implemented in a way where they fail to be reply to ping requests in a
timely manner, resulting in that, to the compositor, they are
indistinguishable from clients that have frozen indefinitely.
When using an application that has these issues, the GUI showed in
response to the failure to respond to ping requests can become annoying,
as it disrupts the visual presentation of the application.
To allow users to work-around these issues, add a setting allowing them
to configure the timeout waited until an application is considered
frozen, or disabling the check completely.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/1080
To emulate X11 grabs, mutter as a Wayland compositor would disable its
own keyboard shortcuts and when the X11 window is an override redirect
window (which never receives focus), it also forces keyboard focus onto
that X11 O-R window so that all keyboard events are routed to the
window, just like an X11 server would.
But that's a bit of a “all-or-nothing” approach which prevents
applications that would legitimately grab the keyboard under X11 (like
virtual machine viewers) to work by default.
Change “xwayland-allow-grabs” to control whether the keyboard focus
should be locked onto override redirect windows in case of an X11 grab.
For stringent needs, careful users can still use the blacklisting
feature (i.e. a list containing “!*”) to prevent grabs from any X11
applications to affect other Wayland native applications.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/597
I saw Meson fade from the sky
On the wind I heard a sigh
As snowflakes cover fallen Makefiles
I will say this last goodbye
Meson is now coming
So ends Autotools days
Future is now coming
And we must away
Over Python and without Bashisms
Through lands where never Meson touched
By silver streams that run down to the Sea
Under parsers, beneath old legacy
Over snow one winter’s morn
I turned at last to paths that lead home
And though where the road then takes me
I cannot tell
We came all this way
But now comes the day
To bid you farewell
Many places I have been
Many sorrows I have seen
But I don’t regret
Nor will I forget
All Makefiles that took that road with me
I bid you all a very fond farewell.
This commit adds meson build support to mutter. It takes a step away
from the three separate code bases with three different autotools setups
into a single meson build system. There are still places that can be
unified better, for example by removing various "config.h" style files
from cogl and clutter, centralizing debug C flags and other configurable
macros, and similar artifacts that are there only because they were once
separate code bases.
There are some differences between the autotools setup and the new
meson. Here are a few:
The meson setup doesn't generate wrapper scripts for various cogl and
clutter test cases. What these tests did was more or less generate a
tiny script that called an executable with a test name as the argument.
To run particular tests, just run the test executable with the name of
the test as the argument.
The meson setup doesn't install test files anymore. The autotools test
suite was designed towards working with installed tests, but it didn't
really still, and now with meson, it doesn't install anything at all,
but instead makes sure that everything runs with the uninstalled input
files, binaries and libraries when running the test suite. Installable
tests may come later.
Tests from cogl, clutter and mutter are run on 'meson test'. In
autotools, only cogl and clutter tests were run on 'make check'.
GTK+ doesn't support shading of client-side decorated windows, and likely
never will (not least because shading is conceptually questionable if the
app customizes the titlebar), and neither do other CSD implementations like
Chromium's. A shortcut that only works with a decreasing number of windows
is more confusing than helpful, so don't expose it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645460
Given that GNOME has used a vertical workspace layout ever since 3.0,
allowing users to assign keyboard shortcuts for horizontal workspace
navigation isn't useful at all, as rightfully pointed out by Bastien
Nocera.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645460
Change the default key combo to re-enable normal keyboard shortcuts
processing while a shortcut inhibitor is in effect to Super+Escape as
primary system modifier key should be Super.
This should reduce the risk of potential conflict with other shortcuts.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789386
This commit adds basic screen casting and remote desktoping
functionalty. This works by exposing two D-Bus API services:
org.gnome.Mutter.ScreenCast and org.gnome.Mutter.RemoteDesktop.
The remote desktop API is used to create remote desktop sessions. For
each session, a D-Bus object is created, and an application can manage
the session by sending messages to the session object. A remote desktop
session the user to emit input events using the D-Bus methods on the
session object. To get framebuffer content, the application should
create an associated screen cast session.
The screen cast API is used to create screen cast sessions. One can so
far either create stand-alone screen cast sessions, or a screen cast
session associated with a remote desktop session. A remote desktop
associated screen cast session is managed by the remote desktop session.
So far only remote desktop managed screen cast sessions are implemented.
Each screen cast session may have one or more streams. A screen cast
stream is a stream of buffers of some part of the compositor content.
So far API exists for creating streams of monitors and windows, but
only monitor streams are implemented.
When a screen cast session is started, the one PipeWire stream is
created for each screen cast stream created for the session. When this
has happened, a PipeWireStreamAdded signal is emitted on the stream
object, passing a unique identifier. The application may use this
identifier to find the associated stream being advertised by the
PipeWire daemon.
The remote desktop and screen cast functionality must be explicitly be
enabled at ./configure time by passing --enable-remote-desktop to
./configure. Doing this will build both screen cast and remote desktop
support.
To actually enable the screen casting and remote desktop, the user must
enable the experimental feature. See
org.gnome.mutter.experimental-features.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784199
Add a mechanism to MetaWaylandSurface that inhibits compositor's own
shortcuts when the surface has input focus, so that clients can receive
all key events regardless of the compositor own shortcuts.
This will help with implementing "fake" active grabs in Wayland and
XWayland clients.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783342
Moved from g-s-d's media keys plugin, where it was called "video-out",
since it requires changing the current monitor configuration and we
want to remove the old DBus API.
This implementation is intentionally simple and not really meant for
more than debugging and validating the various configurations. A
better user experience will be introduced in gnome-shell with a custom
keybinding handler.
The default value includes <Super>P in addition to the standard keysym
for historical reasons.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781906
We'll need to drop the old monitor configuration system to pave way to
better hi-dpi and multi-gpu support. Let's start by defaulting to the
new system in order to give it more real world testing.
Moved from g-s-d's media keys plugin, where it was called
"video-rotate", since it requires changing the current monitor
configuration and we want to remove the old DBus API.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781906
This commit adds support for rendering onto enlarged per logical
monitor framebuffers, using the scaled clutter stage views, for HiDPI
enabled logical monitors.
This works by scaling the mode of the monitors in a logical monitors by
the scale, no longer relying on scaling the window actors and window
geometry for making windows have the correct size on HiDPI monitors.
It is disabled by default, as in automatically created configurations
will still use the old mode. This is partly because Xwayland clients
will not yet work good enough to make it feasible.
To enable, add the 'scale-monitor-framebuffer' keyword to the
org.gnome.mutter.experimental-features gsettings array.
It is still possible to specify the mode via the new D-Bus API, which
has been adapted.
The adaptations to the D-Bus API means the caller need to be aware of
how to position logical monitors on the stage grid. This depends on the
'layout-mode' property that is used (see the DisplayConfig D-Bus
documentation).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777732
This gsetting will allow the adding of keywords to a array, where each
keyword may enable an experimental feauter, if the given mutter version
supports that particular experimental feature. Emphasis is put on the
lack of guarantee that any such keyword has any effect. Currently no
keywords are defined.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777732
intltool is unmaintained nowadays while upstream gettext gained
support for formats like GSettings schemas and .desktop files,
and offers a mechanism to teach it about other XML formats not
yet supported out of the box which we can use for the rest.
So there's nothing stopping us, just make the switch ...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769073
