x11-display: Unset GDK_BACKEND environment variable

mutter needs GDK to use the x11 backend. It already calls
gdk_set_allowed_backends ("x11") for this purpose; however, if
GDK_BACKEND=wayland (or any other non-x11 backend possibly) happened to
be in the environment, GDK would fail to initialize at all. This would
result in mutter not registering as X11 window manager, and all X11
clients hanging.

Big thanks to Olivier Fourdan for figuring this out!

v2:
* Restore original value of GDK_BACKEND environment variable after
  initializing GDK.

Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022283
Bug: https://bugs.debian.org/1008992
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2496>
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Michel Dänzer 2022-07-06 17:38:55 +02:00 committed by Marge Bot
parent efaf5a25b3
commit 23526a99c7

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@ -1009,6 +1009,7 @@ meta_x11_init_gdk_display (GError **error)
{
const char *xdisplay_name;
GdkDisplay *gdk_display;
const char *gdk_backend_env = NULL;
const char *gdk_gl_env = NULL;
const char *old_no_at_bridge;
Display *xdisplay;
@ -1023,6 +1024,10 @@ meta_x11_init_gdk_display (GError **error)
gdk_set_allowed_backends ("x11");
gdk_backend_env = g_getenv ("GDK_BACKEND");
/* GDK would fail to initialize with e.g. GDK_BACKEND=wayland */
g_unsetenv ("GDK_BACKEND");
gdk_gl_env = g_getenv ("GDK_GL");
g_setenv ("GDK_GL", "disable", TRUE);
@ -1053,6 +1058,9 @@ meta_x11_init_gdk_display (GError **error)
return FALSE;
}
if (gdk_backend_env)
g_setenv("GDK_BACKEND", gdk_backend_env, TRUE);
if (gdk_gl_env)
g_setenv("GDK_GL", gdk_gl_env, TRUE);
else