Sometimes it makes no sense to have a shared pointer device, for example
when they have no set region occupying the global stage coordinate
space. This applies to for example window screen cast based pointer
device regions - they are always local to the window, and have no
position.
We do need shared absolute devices in some cases though, primarily
multi-head remote desktop, where it must be possible to keep a button
reliably pressed when crossing monitors that have their own
corresponding regions.
To handle this, outsource all this policy to the one who drives the
emulated input devices. Remote desktop sessions where the screen casts
correspond to specific monitors (physical or virtual), we need to make
sure they map to the stage coordinate space, while for window screencast
or area screencasts, we create standalone absolute pointer devices with
a single region each.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3228>
A MetaEisViewport represents an absolute region backend by e.g. a
pointer device. There are two kinds: a standalone viewport, which
corresponds to a viewport that has no neighbours, and a non-standalone,
which represents a region of a global coordinate space.
The reason for having non-standalone viewports is to allow to mirror the
logical monitor layout of a desktop, while the standalone are meant to
represent things that are not part of the logical monitor layout.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3228>
Dropped obsolete Free Software Foundation address pointing
to the FSF website instead as suggested by
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
keeping intact the important part of the historical notice
as requested by the license.
Resolving rpmlint reported issue E: incorrect-fsf-address.
Signed-off-by: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo@redhat.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3155>
