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Author SHA1 Message Date
Giovanni Campagna
3803fd9511 wayland: don't use fork() and SIGCHLD to spawn processes
It is a very bad idea in a glib program (especially one heavily
using glib child watching facilities, like gnome-shell) to handle
SIGCHLD. While we're there, let's also use g_spawn_async, which
solves some malloc-after-fork problems and makes the code generally
cleaner.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705816
2013-08-15 17:41:34 +02:00
Robert Bragg
f9a11b3b18 wayland: Adds basic hybrid X + Wayland support
This adds support for running mutter as a hybrid X and Wayland
compositor. It runs a headless XWayland server for X applications
that presents wayland surfaces back to mutter which mutter can then
composite.

This aims to not break Mutter's existing support for the traditional X
compositing model which means a single build of Mutter can be
distributed supporting the traditional model and the new Wayland based
compositing model.

TODO: although building with --disable-wayland has at least been tested,
I still haven't actually verified that running as a traditional
compositor isn't broken currently.

Note: At this point no input is supported

Note: multiple authors have contributed to this patch:
Authored-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
Authored-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
Authored-by: Rico Tzschichholz.
Authored-by: Giovanni Campagna <gcampagna@src.gnome.org>
2013-08-10 19:13:48 -04:00