The new monitor configuration system (MetaMonitorConfigManager) aims to
replace the current MetaMonitorConfig. The main difference between the
two is that MetaMonitorConfigManager works with higher level input
(MetaMonitor, MetaMonitorMode) instead of directly looking at the CRTC
and connector state. It still produces CRTC and connector configuration
later applied by the respective backends.
Other difference the new system aims to introduce is that the
configuration system doesn't manipulate the monitor manager state; that
responsibility is left for the monitor manager to handle (it only
manages configuration and creates CRTC/connector assignments, it
doesn't apply anything).
The new configuration system allows backends to not rely on deriving the
current configuration from the CRTC/connector state, as this may no longer be
possible (i.e. when using KMS and multiple framebuffers).
The MetaMonitorConfigManager system is so far disabled by default, as
it does not yet have all the features of the old system, but eventually
it will replace MetaMonitorConfig which will at that point be removed.
This will make it possible to remove old hacks introduced due to
limitations in the old system.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777732
The MetaMonitorMode referred to the mode of a CRTC, and with the future
introduction of a MetaMonitor, theh old name would be confusing.
Instead call it what it is.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777732
Enable a user to test and debug multi output configurations on Wayland
without having the available hardware by enabling some basic
configuration of the dummy monitor manager.
Currently available configuration options are:
MUTTER_DEBUG_NUM_DUMMY_MONITORS - to set the number of monitors
MUTTER_DEBUG_DUMMY_MONITOR_SCALES - to configure the monitor scales
See src/backends/meta-monitor-manager-dummy.c for detailed description
of the available configuration parameters.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747089
To make the nested compositor mode work again after "backends/native:
Calculate the output scale in here", set the scale when creating the
dummy output.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745401
The output_id is more of an opaque identifier for the monitor, based on
its underlying ID from the windowing system. Since we also use the term
"output_id" for the output's index, rename our use of the opaque cookie
"output_id" to "winsys_id".
Right now this just has all of the files in one directory. We'll
be introducing more structure to this in the future, and build
a proper backend system.
