From 56939abd2f1691eea9edf85cb715ebf275944e7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Fourdan Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:57:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] cursor-renderer/native: Add a means to disable HW cursors When dealing with a faulty hardware or bugs in the driver, it might be interesting to force the use of software cursors for debugging purposes. Add a debug environment variable MUTTER_DEBUG_DISABLE_HW_CURSORS to disable hardware cursors and force using software cursors. Closes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2046 Part-of: --- src/backends/native/meta-cursor-renderer-native.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/backends/native/meta-cursor-renderer-native.c b/src/backends/native/meta-cursor-renderer-native.c index 8efdaf777..8a1a6d644 100644 --- a/src/backends/native/meta-cursor-renderer-native.c +++ b/src/backends/native/meta-cursor-renderer-native.c @@ -1874,7 +1874,10 @@ meta_cursor_renderer_native_new (MetaBackend *backend, priv->backend = backend; - init_hw_cursor_support (cursor_renderer_native); + if (g_strcmp0 (getenv ("MUTTER_DEBUG_DISABLE_HW_CURSORS"), "1")) + init_hw_cursor_support (cursor_renderer_native); + else + g_message ("Disabling hardware cursors because MUTTER_DEBUG_DISABLE_HW_CURSORS is set"); return cursor_renderer_native; }