The displayed cursor is the one displayed on the screen, e.g. via the
hardware cursor plane, by Xorg, or using the stage overlay.
When screen recording under X11, we don't get a stream of pointer and
cursor updates, as they might be grabbed by some other client. Because
of this, the cursor tracker or cursor renderer are not kept up to date
with positional and cursor state.
To be able to use the stage overlays when recording, we need to be able
to update the overlay without updating the displayed cursor, as we
shouldn't update the X server with cursor state we just retrieved from
it.
Thus, to achieve this, create a separate overlay cursor pointer. When
being a display server, they are always the same, but when using X11,
during screen recording, the overlay one will be polled at a fixed
interval to get a somewhat up to date state.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1391
Always force-track the cursor position (so that the X11 backend can keep
it up to date), and if the cursor wasn't part of the sampled
framebuffer when reading pixels into CPU memory, draw it in an extra
pass using cairo after the fact. The cairo based cursor painting only
happens on the X11 backend, as we otherwise inhibit the hw cursor.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1391
On X11 we won't always receive cursor positions, as some other client
might have grabbed the pointer (e.g. for implementing a popup menu). To
make screen casting show a somewhat correct cursor position, we need to
actively poll the X server about the current cursor position.
We only really want to do this when screen casting or taking a
screenshot, so add an API that forces the cursor tracker to track the
cursor position.
On the native backend this is a no-op as we by default always track the
cursor position anyway.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1391
Only when the cursor isn't handled by the backend is the overlay made
visible. This is intended to be used when painting the stage to an
offscreen using clutter_stage_paint_to_(frame)buffer() in a way where
the cursor is always included.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1391
Detect displays marked as 'non-desktop' by the kernel and skip them when
creating the outputs. Mutter is not able to render images that are shown
properly on those devices anyway.
This avoids lighting up attached VR HMDs and showing the GDM login
screen between the eyes in a VR HMD instead of on the monitor.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1393
Allowing code from inside mutter to create a child process and
delegate on it some of its tasks is something very useful. This can
be done easily with the g_subprocess and g_subprocess_launcher classes
already available in GLib and GObject.
Unfortunately, although the child process can be a graphical program,
currently it is not possible for the inner code to identify the
windows created by the child in a secure manner (this is: being able
to ensure that a malicious program won't be able to trick the inner
code into thinking it is a child process launched by it).
Under X11 this is not a problem because any program has full control
over their windows, but under Wayland it is a different story: a
program can't neither force their window to be kept at the top (like a
docker program does) or at the bottom (like a program for desktop icons
does), nor hide it from the list of windows. This means that it is not
possible for a "classic", non-priviledged program, to fulfill these
tasks, and it can be done only from code inside mutter (like a
gnome-shell extension).
This is a non desirable situation, because an extension runs in the
same main loop than the whole desktop itself, which means that a
complex extension can need to do too much work inside the main loop,
and freeze the whole desktop for too much time. Also, it is important
to note that javascript doesn't have access to fork(), or threads,
which means that, at most, all the parallel computing that can do is
those available in the _async calls in GLib/GObject.
Also, having to create an extension for any priviledged graphical
element is an stopper for a lot of programmers who already know
GTK+ but doesn't know Clutter.
This patch wants to offer a solution to this problem, by offering a
new class that allows to launch a trusted child process from inside
mutter, and make it to use an specific UNIX socket to communicate
with the compositor. It also allows to check whether an specific
MetaWindow was created by one of this trusted child processes or not.
This allows to create extensions that launch a child process, and
when that process creates a window, the extension can confirm in a
secure way that the window really belongs to that process
launched by it, so it can give to that window "superpowers" like
being kept at the bottom of the desktop, not being listed in the
list of windows or shown in the Activities panel... Also, in future
versions, it could easily implement protocol extensions that only
could be used by these trusted child processes.
Several examples of the usefulness of this are that, with it, it
is possible to write programs that implements:
- desktop icons
- a dock
- a top or bottom bar
...
all in a secure manner, avoiding insecure programs to do the same.
In fact, even if the same code is launched manually, it won't have
those privileges, only the specific process launched from inside
mutter.
Since this is only needed under Wayland, it won't work under X11.
Fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/741
Intended to be used to pass state from screen cast clients down the
line. The first use case will be a boolean whether a screen cast is a
plain recording or not, e.g. letting the Shell decide whether to use a
red dot as the icon, or the generic "sharing" symbol.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1377
The clutter_actor_get_transformed_position returns the position of the
top left point of the actor, with the actor transformations. That means
that if the actor is rotated 180º it'll return the "screen" position top
right.
Using this to calculate if the actor is in the screen is causing
problems when it's transformted.
This patch adds a new function clutter_actor_get_transformed_extents,
that will return the transformed actor bounding rect.
This new function is used on the update_stage_views so the actor will
get updated. this way rotated actors will be updated if they are on the
screen.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1386
GLib will now be linking against sysprof-capture-4.a. To support that,
sysprof had to remove the GLib dependency from sysprof-capture-4 which
had the side-effect of breaking ABi.
This bumps the dependency and includes a fallback to compile just the
libsysprof-capture-4.a using a subproject wrap.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1352
Commit 510cbef15a changed the logic in `handle_update()` for X11 window
actors to return early if the surface is not an X11 surface.
That works fine for plain Xorg, but on Xwayland, the surface is actually
a Wayland surface, therefore the function returns early before updating
the drop shadows of server-side decorations for X11 windows.
Change the test logic to restore drops shadows with Xwayland windows.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1384
Closes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1358
The memory selection source was only providing the "text/plain" or the
"text/plain;charset=utf-8" mimetype, but not "STRING" or "UTF8_STRING",
which some X11 clients, like wine, are looking for. This was breaking
pasting from the clipboard in wine applications.
Fix this by adding those targets when they are missing and the selection
source provides the corresponding mimetypes.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1369
Wine destroys its old selection window immediately before creating a new
selection. This would trigger restoring the clipboard, which would
overwrite the new selection with the old one. The selection window
however can also be destroyed as part of the shutdown process of
applications, such as Chromium for example. In those cases we want the
clipboard to be restored after the selection window has been destroyed.
Solve this by not immediately restoring the clipboard but instead using
a timeout which can be canceled by any new selection owner, such as in
the Wine case.
Fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1338https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1369
The new "id" properties for the MetaCrtc* and MetaOuput* objects are 64-bit
values, so take care to pass 64-bit values when calling g_object_new.
Fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1343.
When using its EGLStream-based presentation path with the proprietary NVIDIA
driver, mutter will use a different function to process page flips -
custom_egl_stream_page_flip. If that fails due to an EBUSY error, it will
attempt to retry the flip. However, when retrying, it unconditionally uses the
libdrm-based path. In practice, this causes a segfault when attempting to
access plane_assignments->fb_id, since plane_assignments will be NULL in the
EGLStream case. The issue can be reproduced reliably by VT-switching away from
GNOME and back again while an EGL application is running.
This patch has mutter also use the custom page flip function when retrying the
failed flip.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1375
Instead of blindly hoping that `$INCLUDE` contains the parent directory
of `gsettings-desktop-schemas`.
Because `gsettings-desktop-schemas.pc` says:
```
Cflags: -I/SOME/DIRECTORY/gsettings-desktop-schemas
```
Which means to include the version that Meson has configured you need
to drop the directory prefix and only `#include <gdesktop-enums.h>`.
This fixes a build failure with local installs triggered by 775ec67a44
but it's also the right thing to do™.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1370
During animation or other things that cause multiple frames in a row
being painted, we might skip recording frames if the max framerate is
reached.
Doing so means we might end up skipping the last frame in a series,
ending with the last frame we sent was not the last one, making things
appear to get stuck sometimes.
Handle this by creating a timeout if we ever throttle, and at the time
the timeout callback is triggered, make sure we eventually send an up to
date frame.
This is handle differently depending on the source type. A monitor
source type reports 1x1 pixel damage on each view its monitor overlaps,
while a window source type simply records a frame from the surface
directly, except without recording a timestamp, so that timestamps
always refer to when damage actually happened.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1361
Now that we don't use the record function to early out depending on
implicit state (don't record pixels if only cursor moved for example),
let it simply report an error when it fails, as we should no longer ever
return without pixels if nothing failed.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1361
