When in the overview culling via `self->clip_region` is unavailable.
The region is `NULL` because the paint call has not originated from a
`WindowGroup`, because the overview does not use `WindowGroup`.
So the main wallpaper was being painted in full while in the overview.
That's a waste of effort because `redraw_clip` is going to be used to
stencil/scissor out only the parts that are changing. We don't need to
paint *most* of the wallpaper, only the parts behind anything changing.
For the overview this reduces GPU power usage (intel_gpu_top) roughly
10% and reduces render times almost as much.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1363
`meta_background_content_paint_content` was mixing two different
coordinate systems in `actor_pixel_rect`. It was initialized with
actor-local coordinates and then `if (self->clip_region)` would be
treated as stage coordinates. This worked because `self->clip_region`
was only non-NULL outside of the overview where both coordinate systems
were the same. So it always got the right answer, possibly by accident.
In order to enhance the function however we will need to know which
coordinate system we're working in, so now we make it explicit.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1363
That was obviously always the intention, but it didn't work when the
display was scaled. My 3840x2160 monitor with a 3840x2160 texture was
being rendered with LINEAR filtering.
It seems the `force_bilinear` flag was TRUE when it should be FALSE.
Because a texture area that's an integer fraction of the texture
resolution is still a perfect match when that integer is the monitor
scale. We were also getting:
`meta_actor_painting_untransformed (fb, W, H, W, H, NULL, NULL) == FALSE`
when the display was scaled. Because the second W,H was not the real
sampling resolution. So with both of those issues fixed we now get
NEAREST filtering when the texture resolution matches the resolution it's
physically being rendered at.
Note: The background texture actually wasn't equal to the physical monitor
resolution prior to January 2020 (76240e24f7). So it wasn't possible to do
this before then. Since then however, the texture resolution is always
equal to the physical monitor resolution.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1346
gnome-shell displays workspace previews at one tenth scale. That's a
few binary orders of magnitude so even using a LINEAR filter was
resulting in visible jaggies. Now we apply mipmapping so they appear
smooth.
As an added bonus, the mipmaps used occupy roughly 1% the memory of
the original image (0.1 x 0.1 = 0.01) so they actually fit into GPU/CPU
caches now and rendering performance is improved. There's no need to
traverse the original texture which at 4K resolution occupies 33MB,
only a 331KB mipmap.
In my case this reduces the render time for the overview by ~10%.
Closes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/1416https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1347
The current code assumes that the actor will always have the same
size and position of the background texture, but part of the implicit
contract of being a ClutterContent is being able to render itself
at any given actor, at any given size.
For example, if the current code is given an actor with 0x0+100+100
as geometry, and no clipped region, it'll render not the whole
background, but the 0x0+100+100 rectangle of the background. In
practice, the actor geometry acts like a "clip mask" over the
background texture, due to the assumption that the actor will
always have the same size of the monitor.
Make the calculation of the texture slices relative to the actor
box.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1302
MetaBackgroundContent is a ClutterContent implementation
that can render a background to any attached actor. Right
now, it preserves all the properties and the rendering
model of MetaBackgroundActor.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1302
