Without doing this, we'd use the same sprite that was last set by
mutter, most likely a leftptr cursor, and fail to update when e.g.
moving the pointer above a text entry and the displayed cursor updated
to a cursor position marker.
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
The order and way include macros were structured was chaotic, with no
real common thread between files. Try to tidy up the mess with some
common scheme, to make things look less messy.
Remove some X11 compositing manager specific code from the general
purpose cursor tracker into a new MetaCursorSprite based special
purpose XFIXES cursor sprite.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/77
Just like X11/XFixes behaves, the current cursor is not affected
by its visibility, so it can be queried while invisible (possibly
to be replaced).
For this, keep an extra effective_cursor pointer that will be
either equal to displayed_cursor (maybe a bit of a misnomer now)
or NULL if the cursor is invisible. The MetaCursorRenderer
management is tied to the former, and the ::cursor-changed signal
emission to the latter.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754806
To be able to render the pointer cursor sprite at sub-(logical)-pixel
positions, track the pointer position using floats instead of ints.
This also requires users of the cursor sprite rect to deal with
floating points, when e.g. finding the logical monitor etc.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765011
We expect that meta_screen_set_cursor while grabbed will properly
set the cursor on the root window. Make sure this works by simply
always using the root cursor when we have an active grab.
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.
