#include "../../../libdecor/src/libdecor.h"
\endcode
as necessary.
File \c README.Wayland.txt details what software packages are needed on Debian-based, Fedora
and FreeBSD systems for FLTK to use Wayland. Wayland protocols are packaged as XML files
accompanied by a utility program, \c wayland-scanner, able to generate a header file and a
necessary glue C source file from a given XML file. For example, for FLTK to use the xdg shell
protocol, these commands are run at build time to generate a .c file that will be compiled into libfltk
and a header file that FLTK code will include:
\code
set(PROTOCOLS /usr/share/wayland-protocols)
wayland-scanner private-code ${PROTOCOLS}/stable/xdg-shell/xdg-shell.xml xdg-shell-protocol.c
wayland-scanner client-header ${PROTOCOLS}/stable/xdg-shell/xdg-shell.xml xdg-shell-client-protocol.h
\endcode
Similar operations are performed for FLTK to use protocols xdg decoration unstable v1 and
text input unstable v3.
\section wayland-x11-hybrid The hybrid Wayland/X11 platform
The Wayland platform of FLTK is normally a two-legged hybrid able to use either Wayland or X11
and to choose between these possibilities at run-time, without any change to the client
application. The Wayland/X11 hybrid is essentially a version of the FLTK library containing both all
Wayland-specific and all X11-specific code. This creates the constraint that Wayland and X11 cannot
use the same type name for different purposes or the same symbol name.
That is why function fl_xid(const Fl_Window*) is deprecated in FLTK 1.4 and replaced by
\c fl_wl_xid() for Wayland and \c fl_x11_xid() for X11. Also, global variable
Window fl_window is not used by the Wayland platform which instead uses
static struct wld_window *Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver:: wld_window;.
The FLTK library contains also a dedicated source file,
\c fl_wayland_platform_init.cxx, that determines, at startup time, whether
the app will run as a Wayland or as an X11 client. Function \c attempt_wayland() therein performs
this choice as follows :
- if the app defines a global bool variable called \c fl_disable_wayland and this variable is true,
the X11 leg is chosen;
- if environment variable FLTK_BACKEND is defined to string "wayland", the Wayland leg is chosen;
- if environment variable FLTK_BACKEND is defined to string "x11", the X11 leg is chosen;
- otherwise, a connection to a Wayland compositor is attempted; if it's successful, the Wayland
leg is chosen; if it's not, the X11 leg is chosen.
The first condition listed above is meant to facilitate transition to FLTK 1.4 of source code
written for FLTK 1.3 and containing X11-specific code : it's enough to put
\code
FL_EXPORT bool fl_disable_wayland = true;
\endcode
anywhere in the source code, for the app to run with 1.4, using the x11 leg of the hybrid platform,
without any other change in the source code nor to the application's environment.
In special situations, such as with embedded systems equipped with the Wayland software but lacking
the X11 library, it's possible to build the FLTK library such as it contains only the Wayland backend.
This is achieved building FLTK with cmake -DOPTION_WAYLAND_ONLY=on or with
configure --disable-x11.
The rest of this chapter describes what happens when the Wayland leg has been chosen.
\section wayland-connection Opening a Wayland connection
Function \c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver::open_display_platform() establishes the Wayland connection
calling \c wl_display_connect(NULL) which returns a struct wl_display object.
Then, function \c wl_registry_add_listener() associates a 2-member listener, whose 1st member,
\c registry_handle_global(), will be called by Wayland a number of times to indicate each time a protocol
supported by the compositor or a system feature such as displays and keyboards.
The prototype of this function is:
\code
static void registry_handle_global(void *user_data, struct wl_registry *wl_registry,
uint32_t id, const char *interface, uint32_t version)
\endcode
Each time Wayland calls \c registry_handle_global(), \c interface and \c version give the name
and version of a component or feature of the Wayland system. It's necessary to call each time function
\c wl_registry_bind() which returns a pointer to a Wayland structure that will be the client's access
point to the corresponding Wayland protocol or system feature. This pointer is stored in a dedicated
member variable of the unique \c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver object of an FLTK app, or of another object
accessible from this object.
For example, when \c interface equals "wl_compositor", \c the value returned by wl_registry_bind() is
stored as member \c wl_compositor of the \c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver object.
\c registry_handle_global() also identifies whether the Mutter, Weston, or KDE compositor is connected
and stores this information in static member variable \c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver::compositor.
Finally, function \c wl_display_get_fd() is called to obtain the file descriptor of the Wayland socket
and a call to Fl::add_fd() makes FLTK listen to this descriptor and associates function \c fd_callback()
from file \c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver.cxx with it. This function calls \c wl_display_dispatch() which
asks the Wayland client library to process requests arrived in the socket. The \c wl_display_dispatch()
call is repeated as long as data are available for reading.
The event loop is run by function \c Fl_Unix_System_Driver::wait() which is used by both
the Wayland and X11 FLTK backends. Among various tasks, this function waits for data arriving
on the file descriptors FLTK is listening. Overall, the event loop of the Wayland backend
is nearly exactly the
same as that used by the X11 backend. The Wayland backend differs only in the callback function
called to handle data read from the Wayland connection socket, which is Wayland-specific.
\section wayland-surface Wayland windows and surfaces
Wayland defines objects called surfaces of type struct wl_surface. A Wayland surface
"has a rectangular area which may be displayed on zero or more displays, present buffers,
receive user input, and define a local coordinate system". Buffers allow the client app to
draw to surfaces (see below). FLTK makes no use of local coordinate systems. FLTK creates a surface
with function \c wl_compositor_create_surface() each time an Fl_Window is show()'n.
Static member function Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver::surface_to_window(struct wl_surface *)
gives the \c Fl_Window* corresponding to the surface given in argument.
Function \c wl_surface_add_listener() associates the surface with a listener which allows to
associate each surface with the display where it is mapped. FLTK recognizes 4 distinct
kinds of surfaces named DECORATED, UNFRAMED, POPUP and SUBWINDOW.
DECORATED are toplevel windows with a titlebar. UNFRAMED have no titlebar. POPUP correspond to menus
and tooltips, SUBWINDOW to an Fl_Window embedded in another Fl_Window. Function
\c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::makeWindow() creates all these surfaces, creates for each a record of
type struct wld_window (see \ref wld_window), and stores the window kind in
member variable \c kind of this record. Member variable \c xid of the window's \c Fl_X record stores
the adress of this record.
Except for SUBWINDOW's, each surface needs a Wayland object of type struct xdg_surface
used to make it become a mapped window and stored in member \c xdg_surface of the window's
\ref wld_window record. Finally, each surface is also associated to one more Wayland object whose type
varies with the window's kind. These explain this part of the \ref wld_window record:
\code
union {
struct libdecor_frame *frame; // used when kind == DECORATED
struct wl_subsurface *subsurface; // used when kind == SUBWINDOW
struct xdg_popup *xdg_popup; // used when kind == POPUP
struct xdg_toplevel *xdg_toplevel; // used when kind == UNFRAMED
};
\endcode
Except for SUBWINDOW's, each surface is associated to a 'configure' function that Wayland calls one or
more times when the window is going to be mapped on the display.
The 'configure' function of DECORATED surfaces is \c handle_configure(). Wayland calls it
twice when mapping a DECORATED surface. The first \c handle_configure() run allows to set
the window's \c xdg_surface object which is returned by function \c libdecor_frame_get_xdg_surface().
FLTK distinguishes the first from the second run of \c handle_configure() by looking at
the \c xdg_surface member variable that's NULL at the beginning of the 1st run and not NULL later.
Wayland calls \c handle_configure() also during operations such as resizing, minimizing (see below).
With the help of a few calls to libdecor functions, FLTK obtains in this function
all needed information about the size and state of the mapped window. The 'configure' functions of
UNFRAMED and POPUP surfaces are \c xdg_surface_configure() and \c xdg_toplevel_configure().
They transmit effective window size information to FLTK. Also, these 'configure' functions are where the
window's \c Fl_Window_Driver::wait_for_expose_value member variable is set to 0 to indicate that
the window has been mapped to display. \b Caution: there are some small
differences between how and when the various Wayland compositors call \c handle_configure().
When a decorated window changes size, whatever the cause of it, Wayland calls
\c handle_configure() which sets member variable \c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::in_handle_configure to true
and calls the window's virtual \c resize() function which ultimately runs
\c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::resize() which calls Fl_Group::resize() to perform FLTK's resize
operations and \c Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver::buffer_release()
to delete the existing window buffer that's not adequate for the new window size.
At the end of the run of \c handle_configure(), \c in_handle_configure is set back to false.
When the window size change is caused by the app itself calling the window's \c resize() function,
\c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::in_handle_configure is false. This allows
\c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::resize()
to detect that Wayland needs be informed of the desired size change, which gets done by a call
to \c libdecor_frame_commit(). Wayland later calls \c handle_configure() and events described
above unfold.
\section wayland-graphics-driver Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver and Fl_Cairo_Graphics_Driver
Wayland uses an \c Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver object for all its on-screen drawing operations.
This object is created by function \c Fl_Graphics_Driver::newMainGraphicsDriver() called by
\c Fl_Display_Device::display_device() when the library opens the display.
New \c Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver objects are also created for each \c Fl_Image_Surface and
each \c Fl_Copy_Surface used, and deleted when these objects are deleted.
Class \c Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver derives from class \c Fl_Cairo_Graphics_Driver which
implements all the FLTK drawing API for a Cairo surface.
Function \c Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver::cairo_init()
creates the Cairo surface used by each \c Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver object by calling \c
cairo_image_surface_create_for_data() for the window's or offscreen's \c draw_buffer (see below).
Class \c Fl_Cairo_Graphics_Driver is also used
by the X11 leg of the hybrid Wayland-X11 platform because this leg draws to the display with
an \c Fl_Display_Cairo_Graphics_Driver object which derives from class
\c Fl_Cairo_Graphics_Driver. Finally, \c Fl_Cairo_Graphics_Driver is also used, in the form of
an object from its derived class \c Fl_PostScript_Graphics_Driver, when the hybrid Wayland-X11
platform draws PostScript, or when the classic X11 platform uses Pango and draws PostScript.
This happens when classes \c Fl_PostScript_File_Device and \c Fl_Printer are used.
\section wayland-buffer Wayland buffers
Wayland uses buffers, objects of type struct wl_buffer, to draw to surfaces. In principle,
one or more buffers can be associated to a surface, and functions \c wl_surface_attach() and
\c wl_surface_commit() are called to first attach one such buffer to the surface and then inform the
compositor to map this buffer on the display. Wayland buffers can use various
memory layouts. FLTK uses WL_SHM_FORMAT_ARGB8888, which is the same layout as what Cairo calls
CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32.
FLTK calls function \c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::make_current() before drawing to any Fl_Window.
Member \c buffer of this Fl_Window's struct wld_window (see \ref wld_window) is NULL when the
window has just been created or resized. In that case, FLTK calls member functions
\c create_shm_buffer() and \c cairo_init() of \c Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver to create
- a Wayland buffer;
- a Cairo image surface.
Each of these two objects bundles a byte array of the same size and the same memory layout
destined to contain the Fl_Window's graphics. The Cairo surface object is where FLTK draws.
The Wayland buffer is what Wayland maps on the display. FLTK copies the Cairo surface's byte array
to the Wayland buffer's byte array before beginning the mapping operation.
A Wayland buffer is a section of a larger memory structure shared between the client app
and the compositor. The shared memory structure is initially sized at 10 MB and increased
by steps of 10 MB when necessary. FLTK uses a function of the
libdecor library, \c os_create_anonymous_file(), to create an adequate file and mmap's this
file.
FLTK associates to each surface a struct fl_wld_buffer (see \ref fl_wld_buffer) containing
a pointer to the byte array of the Cairo image surface (member \c draw_buffer), information about the
Wayland buffer (members \c wl_buffer and \c data), the common size of the Cairo surface's and
Wayland buffer's byte arrays (member \c data_size), and other information. A pointer to this
struct fl_wld_buffer is memorized as member \c buffer of the Fl_Window's \ref wld_window.
All drawing operations to the Fl_Window then modify the content of the Cairo image surface.
Function \c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::flush() is in charge of sending FLTK
graphics data to the display. That is done by calling function \c
Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver::buffer_commit() which copies the byte array of the Cairo surface to
the Wayland buffer's starting memory address, and calls functions \c wl_surface_attach()
and \c wl_surface_commit(). Before calling Fl_Window::flush(),
FLTK has computed a damaged region. \c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::flush() also calls function
\c wl_surface_damage_buffer() with that information to inform the compositor of what parts
of the surface need its attention.
An important detail here is that FLTK uses Wayland's synchronization
mechanism to make sure the surface's \c wl_buffer is not changed until the surface is fully
mapped on the display. This 3-step mechanism works as follows:
- Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver::buffer_commit() first calls function \c wl_surface_frame() to
obtain a struct wl_callback object and stores it as member \c cb of the surface's
\ref fl_wld_buffer.
- Then it calls \c wl_callback_add_listener() to associate this object to the FLTK-defined,
callback function \c surface_frame_done() that Wayland calls at the end of the mapping operation.
- Finally \c surface_frame_done() destroys the \c wl_callback object by function
\c wl_callback_destroy() and sets member \c cb to NULL.
This procedure ensures that FLTK never changes the surface's Wayland buffer
while it's being used by the compositor because \c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::flush()
checks that \c cb is NULL before calling \c Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver::buffer_commit().
If it's not NULL, FLTK calls function \c wl_callback_destroy() which instructs the compositor
to abort the mapping operation and to get ready for processing of a new byte buffer.
FLTK supports progressive drawing when an app calls function Fl_Window::make_current()
at any time and then calls the FLTK drawing API. This is made possible
in function \c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::make_current() with
\code
// to support progressive drawing
if ( (!Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::in_flush) && window->buffer && (!window->buffer->cb) &&
!wait_for_expose_value ) {
Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver::buffer_commit(window);
}
\endcode
Thus, \c buffer_commit() runs only when \c cb is NULL. If an app rapidly performs calls
to Fl_Window::make_current() and to drawing functions, FLTK will copy \c draw_buffer to the Wayland
buffer and instruct Wayland to map it to the display when \c cb is NULL
which means that the compositor is ready to start performing a mapping operation, and will only
modify \c draw_buffer when \c cb is not NULL, letting the compositor complete its ongoing
mapping task.
For example, FLTK's mandelbrot test app can be seen to progressively fill its window from
top to bottom by blocks of lines, each block appearing when the compositor is ready to map
a new buffer. When the compositor is not ready, the app does not block but continues
computing and drawing in memory but not on display more lines of the desired Mandelbrot graph.
\section wayland-display Displays and HighDPI support
Wayland uses the concept of seat of type struct wl_seat which encompasses displays,
a keyboard, a mouse, and a trackpad. It might be possible for an app to deal with several seats,
but that has not been tested with FLTK yet. Each seat may contain one or more displays, which
Wayland calls outputs, of type struct wl_output.
As written above, function \c registry_handle_global() discovers available seats at start-up time.
This function also associates a 'listener' to each display
by calling function \c wl_output_add_listener(). This 'listener' is an array of callback function
pointers among which one (\c output_mode) runs when the display is resized and another
(\c output_scale) when the Wayland scale factor (see below) is changed.
FLTK defines type struct output (see \ref output) inside class
\c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver to store display size and scaling information.
One such record is created for each display. FLTK uses 2 distinct scaling parameters under Wayland:
- int wld_scale;. This member variable of struct output typically equals 1
for standard, and 2 for
HighDPI displays. Its value is set by the Wayland compositor for each display with the effect
that 1 Wayland graphics unit represents a block of \c nxn pixels when the value is \c n.
Another effect is that a drawing buffer for a surface of size WxH units contains
W * n * H * n * 4 bytes. This is enough to make FLTK apps HighDPI-aware because the
Wayland compositor automatically initializes parameter \c wld_scale to the value adequate for
each display's DPI. Under the gnome desktop, this parameter is visible in the "Settings" app,
"Displays" section, "Scale" parameter which is 200% on HighDPI displays.
- float gui_scale;. This other member variable is where FLTK's own GUI scaling mechanism
with ctrl/+/-/0/ keystrokes and with environment variable FLTK_SCALING_FACTOR operates:
when FLTK is scaled at 150%, \c gui_scale is assigned value 1.5. Function
Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver::scale(int n, float f) assigns value \c f to the \c gui_scale
member variable of display # \c n. This variable is used by function
\c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::make_current() when it calls \c Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver::set_buffer()
that scales the graphics driver by this factor with \c cairo_scale().
The display size information of struct output accounts for the value of its \c wld_scale member
variable: \c width and \c height are set to the number of pixels of the display / \c wld_scale.
Overall, an FLTK object, say an Fl_Window, of size \c WxH FLTK units occupies
W * wld_scale * gui_scale x H * wld_scale * gui_scale pixels on the display.
\section wayland-mouse Mouse and trackpad handling
FLTK receives information about mouse and pointer events via a 'listener' made up of 5
pointers to functions which Wayland calls when events listed in table below occur.
These functions receive from Wayland enough information in their parameters to generate
corresponding FLTK events, that is, calls to Fl::handle(int event_type, Fl_Window *).
| listener function | called by Wayland when | resulting FLTK events |
|---|
| \c pointer_enter | pointer enters a window | FL_ENTER |
| \c pointer_leave | pointer leaves a window | FL_LEAVE |
| \c pointer_motion | pointer moves inside a window | FL_MOVE |
| \c pointer_button | state of mouse buttons changes | FL_PUSH, FL_RELEASE |
| \c pointer_axis | trackpad is moved vertically or horizontally |
FL_MOUSEWHEEL |
\c pointer_listener is installed by a call to function \c wl_pointer_add_listener()
made by function \c seat_capabilities() which is itself another 'listener' made up of 2
function pointers
\code
static struct wl_seat_listener seat_listener = {
seat_capabilities,
seat_name
};
\endcode
installed by a call to function \c wl_seat_add_listener() made by function
\c registry_handle_global() when it receives a \c "wl_seat" interface.
\section wayland-cursor Wayland cursors
Wayland defines types struct wl_cursor and struct wl_cursor_theme to hold
cursor-related data. FLTK stores in member variable
\c default_cursor of the \ref seat record, a pointer to the currently used cursor.
Function \c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::set_cursor(Fl_Cursor) calls \c wl_cursor_theme_get_cursor()
to set the current cursor shape to one of the standard shapes from the \c Fl_Cursor enumeration.
This Wayland function selects a cursor shape based on the current 'cursor theme' and a cursor name.
Cursor names are the files of directory \c /usr/share/icons/XXXX/cursors/ where \c XXXX is the name of
the 'cursor theme'. For example, what FLTK calls \c FL_CURSOR_INSERT corresponds to file \c xterm
therein. The full correspondance between \c Fl_Cursor values and Wayland cursor names is found
in function \c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::set_cursor(Fl_Cursor).
FLTK uses function \c init_cursors() from file \c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver.cxx to identify the
app's 'cursor theme' using function \c libdecor_get_cursor_settings() of library \c libdecor,
and to store it in member variable \c cursor_theme of the \ref seat record.
Function \c init_cursors() is itself called by a 'listener' installed when function
\c registry_handle_global() receives a \c "wl_seat" interface, at program startup.
It is also called when the value of the Wayland scaling factor changes.
Function Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::set_cursor(const Fl_RGB_Image *rgb, int hotx, int hoty)
is used to create a custom cursor shape. This operation is relatively complex, specially because
it uses a non-public structure, struct cursor_image, defined in file \c wayland-cursor.c
of the Wayland project source code.
\section wayland-text Text input
The "Mouse handling" topic above mentionned function \c seat_capabilities() that Wayland calls when
the app discovers its "seat". Presence of flag \c WL_SEAT_CAPABILITY_KEYBOARD in argument
\c capabilities of this function indicates that a keyboard is available. This availability is
stored in member \c wl_keyboard of the \ref seat object. Then, a call to
\c wl_keyboard_add_listener() installs a 6-member listener of type
struct wl_keyboard_listener. These 6 FLTK-defined, callback functions are used as follows.
Function \c wl_keyboard_keymap() runs once and allows initialization of access to this keyboard.
Noticeably, member \c xkb_state of type struct xkb_state* of the current \ref seat record
is adequately initialized.
Functions \c wl_keyboard_enter() and \c wl_keyboard_leave(), called when focus enters and
leaves a surface, send \c FL_FOCUS and \c FL_UNFOCUS events to the \c Fl_Window object corresponding
to this surface.
Function \c wl_keyboard_key() runs each time a keyboard key is pressed or released. Its argument \c key,
to which 8 must be added, provides the keycode via function \c xkb_state_key_get_one_sym() and then the
corresponding text via function \c xkb_state_key_get_utf8() which is put in \c Fl::e_text.
Then, a few calls to functions whose name begin with \c xkb_compose_ are necessary to support
dead and compose keys. Finally a call to \c Fl::handle() sends an \c FL_KEYDOWN or \c FL_KEYUP event to
the appropriate \c Fl_Window. Also, function \c wl_keyboard_key() uses global variable
Fl_Int_Vector key_vector to record all currently pressed keys. This is the base of the
implementation of \c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver::event_key(int).
Function \c wl_keyboard_modifiers() runs when a modifier key (e.g., shift, control) is pressed or
released. Calls to functions \c xkb_state_update_mask() and \c xkb_state_mod_name_is_active() allow FLTK
to set \c Fl::e_state adequately.
Function \c wl_keyboard_repeat_info() does not run, for now, because this would require version 4 of
the wl_keyboard object which is at version 3 in all tested Wayland compositors.
\section wayland-text-input Support of text input methods
When the connected Wayland compositor supports text input methods, function
\c registry_handle_global() gets called with its \c interface argument equal to
\c zwp_text_input_manager_v3_interface.name. The following call to \c wl_registry_bind() returns an
object of type struct zwp_text_input_manager_v3 * that is stored as member \c text_input_base
of the \c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver object.
Later, when function \c seat_capabilities() runs, \c text_input_base is found not NULL, which triggers
a call to function \c zwp_text_input_manager_v3_get_text_input() returning a value of type
struct zwp_text_input_v3 * and stored as member \c text_input of the \ref seat object.
Next, a call to \c zwp_text_input_v3_add_listener() associates this \c text_input with a 6-member
listener of type struct zwp_text_input_v3_listener. These 6 FLTK-defined, callback functions
are used as follows.
Functions \c text_input_enter() and \c text_input_leave() are called when text input enters or leaves a
surface (which corresponds to an \c Fl_Window).
Functions \c text_input_preedit_string() and \c text_input_commit_string() are called when the text
input method asks the client app to insert 'marked' text or regular text, respectively.
Complex text input often begins by inserting temporary text which is said to be 'marked' before
replacing it with the text that will stay in the document. FLTK underlines marked text
to distinguish it from regular text.
Functions \c text_input_delete_surrounding_text() and \c text_input_done() have
no effect at present, without this preventing input methods that have been tested with FLTK to work
satisfactorily.
It's necessary to inform text input methods of the current location of the insertion point in the
active surface. This information allows them to map their auxiliary windows next to the insertion
point, where they are expected to appear. The flow of information on this topic is as follows:
- The two FLTK widgets supporting text input, Fl_Input_ and Fl_Text_Display, transmit to FLTK the window
coordinates of the bottom of the current insertion point and the line height each time they change
calling function \c fl_set_spot().
- fl_set_spot() calls the platform override of virtual member function \c Fl_Screen_Driver::set_spot().
Under Wayland, this just calls
\c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver::insertion_point_location(int x, int y, int height) which calls
\c zwp_text_input_v3_set_cursor_rectangle() to inform the text input method about the surface
position and size of the insertion point and also memorizes this information in static member
variables of class \c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver.
- Callback function \c text_input_enter() calls
\c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver::insertion_point_location(int *x, int *y, int *height) which gives it
the stored position information, and then calls \c zwp_text_input_v3_set_cursor_rectangle() to inform the
text input method about the position of the insertion point.
\section wayland-libdecor Interface with libdecor
FLTK uses a library called \c libdecor to determine whether the Wayland compositor uses CSD or SSD mode,
and also to draw window titlebars when in CSD mode (see \ref bundled-libdecor). \c Libdecor is
conceived to load at run-time a plugin present in a shared library in the system and
expected to draw titlebars in a way that best matches the Desktop. As of early 2023, two plugins
are available:
- \c libdecor-gtk intended for the Gnome desktop;
- \c libdecor-cairo for other situations.
Because \c libdecor is not yet in Linux packages, or only in a preliminary state, FLTK bundles the
most recent source code of \c libdecor and its plugins. This code is included in libfltk.
FLTK uses \c libdecor-gtk when software package \c libgtk-3-dev is present in the
system, and \c libdecor-cairo otherwise.
\c Libdecor uses the Wayland protocol "xdg decoration unstable v1" hinted at before.
CMake \c OPTION_USE_SYSTEM_LIBDECOR has been defined to allow FLTK in the future, when \c libdecor and
\c libdecor-gtk will be part of Linux packages, to use these packages rather than the \c libdecor
code bundled in FLTK. When this option is ON, preprocessor variable \c USE_SYSTEM_LIBDECOR is 1,
and both \c libdecor and its plugin are loaded at run-time from shared libraries. This option is OFF
by default.
Whatever the value of \c OPTION_USE_SYSTEM_LIBDECOR, FLTK and \c libdecor use environment variable
\c LIBDECOR_PLUGIN_DIR as follows: if this variable is defined and points to the name of a directory,
this directory is searched for a potential \c libdecor plugin in the form of a shared library;
if one is found, FLTK and \c libdecor load it and use it.
The \c libdecor source code bundled in FLTK is identical to that of the \c libdecor repository.
Nevertheless, FLTK uses this code with some minor changes. For example, except if \c USE_SYSTEM_LIBDECOR
is 1, FLTK needs to modify function \c libdecor_new() charged of loading the plugin, to make it use
the plugin code that is included in libfltk if none is found as a dynamic library. This is done as
follows in file \c libdecor/build/fl_libdecor.c:
\code
#define libdecor_new libdecor_new_orig
#include "../src/libdecor.c"
#undef libdecor_new
void libdecor_new() { // FLTK rewrite of this function
……
}
\endcode
FLTK compiles file \c fl_libdecor.c which includes \c libdecor.c to the effect that all of
the \c libdecor code becomes part of libfltk except that function \c libdecor_new() is substituted by
its FLTK rewrite, without file \c libdecor.c being modified at all. This trick is also used to modify
function \c libdecor_frame_set_minimized() to bypass a bug in the Weston compositor before version 10.
Similarly, FLTK compiles file \c fl_libdecor-plugins.c which includes either \c libdecor-gtk.c or
\c libdecor-cairo.c to the effect that the desired plugin becomes part of libfltk.
To support function \c Fl_Widget_Surface::draw_decorated_window() that draws a mapped window and its
titlebar, FLTK needs to perform two operations: 1) identify what plugin is operating, and 2) call
a function that is specific of that plugin and that returns the pixels of the drawn titlebar.
FLTK performs operation 1) above using its function \c get_libdecor_plugin_description() of file
\c fl_libdecor-plugins.c that returns a human readable string describing the running plugin.
Each plugin puts its own string in member \c description of a record of type
struct libdecor_plugin_description. Although this type is public in header file
\c libdecor-plugin.h, accessing the symbol defined by the plugin to store a pointer to a value of this
type is complicated for a reason and solved by a method detailed in a comment before function
\c get_libdecor_plugin_description().
Function \c get_libdecor_plugin_description() also determines whether the compositor uses CSD or SSD
mode. This information is stored
in member \c decoration_mode of struct libdecor_frame_private which is not part of
the public libdecor API. For this reason, FLTK copies to \c fl_libdecor-plugins.c the definition of
this type present in \c libdecor.c.
Operation 2) above is done by FLTK-defined function \c fl_libdecor_titlebar_buffer() from file
\c fl_libdecor-plugins.c. This function calls \c get_libdecor_plugin_description() seen above
to get the running plugin's descriptive string. That is "GTK3 plugin" with \c libdecor-gtk.
FLTK function \c gtk_titlebar_buffer() is then called, and returns a pointer to the start of a byte
buffer containing the titlebar graphics.
That is, again, not possible with the public \c libdecor API. Therefore,
FLTK copies to \c fl_libdecor-plugins.c the definitions of several types
given in \c libdecor-gtk.c or \c libdecor-cairo.c such as type struct border_component.
\section wayland-clipboard Copy/Paste/Drag-n-Drop
FLTK follows the procedure that is very well described in item "Wayland clipboard and drag &
drop" of the \ref wayland-doc. All corresponding source code is in file
\c src/drivers/Wayland/fl_wayland_clipboard_dnd.cxx.
This part of \ref seat records stores pointers to Wayland objects used for clipboard and D-n-D
operations:
\code
struct wl_data_device_manager *data_device_manager;
struct wl_data_device *data_device;
struct wl_data_source *data_source;
\endcode
FLTK can copy or paste plain UTF-8 text or image data to/from the clipboard. Images are copied to the
clipboard as \c image/bmp mime type. Images in \c image/bmp or \c image/png mime types from the
clipboard can be pasted to FLTK apps. Files dropped are received as a string with '\\n' between
successive filenames.
\section wayland-egl EGL as support for OpenGL
Wayland uses EGL™ to interface OpenGL with the underlying
native platform window system. OpenGL-using FLTK apps are therefore linked to \c libwayland-egl.so and
\c libEGL.so in addition to \c libGL.so and \c libGLU.so. These librairies allow FLTK to
create and initialize an EGL display connection, create objects of type \c wl_egl_window,
\c EGLSurface, and \c GLContext. An object of type \c wl_egl_window is created by function
\c Fl_Wayland_Gl_Window_Driver::make_current_before() in reference to
an existing \c wl_surface object which connects this EGL-object with a given Wayland window.
FLTK calls function \c Fl_Wayland_Gl_Window_Driver::swap_buffers() each time it wants a GL context
to be sent to the display. This function contains some pure GL code to emulate an overlay buffer
to support Fl_Gl_Window objects overriding their \c draw_overlay() member function.
Then, it calls function \c eglSwapBuffers() after having called Wayland code to synchronize EGL use
with the rest of the Wayland compositor's activity.
This synchronization procedure is as explained in the
description of function wl_display_prepare_read_queue().
\section wayland-type FLTK-defined, Wayland-specific types
\anchor wld_window
- struct wld_window is defined in \c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver.H. One such record is created
for each shown()'n Fl_Window by \c Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::makeWindow().
Function \c fl_wl_xid(Fl_Window*) returns a pointer to the struct wld_window of its argument.
struct wld_window {
struct wl_list outputs; // linked list of outputs where this surface is mapped
struct wl_surface *wl_surface; // the window's surface
struct fl_wld_buffer *buffer; // see \ref fl_wld_buffer
struct xdg_surface *xdg_surface;
union {
struct libdecor_frame *frame; // for DECORATED windows
struct wl_subsurface *subsurface; // for SUBWINDOW windows
struct xdg_popup *xdg_popup; // for POPUP windows
struct xdg_toplevel *xdg_toplevel; // for UNFRAMED windows
};
Fl_Window *fl_win;
enum Fl_Wayland_Window_Driver::kind kind; // DECORATED or POPUP or SUBWINDOW or UNFRAMED
int configured_width; // used when negotiating window size with the compositor
int configured_height;
int floating_width; // helps restoring size after un-maximizing
int floating_height;
int scale; // the Wayland scale factor for HighDPI displays (1 or 2, possibly 3)
int state; // indicates whether window is fullscreen, maximized. Used otherwise for POPUPs
}
\anchor fl_wld_buffer
- struct fl_wld_buffer is defined in \c Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver.H. One such record is
created for each shown()'n or resized Fl_Window by \c Fl_Wayland_Graphics_Driver::create_shm_buffer().
struct fl_wld_buffer {
struct wl_buffer *wl_buffer; // the Wayland buffer
void *data; // address of the beginning of the Wayland buffer's byte array
size_t data_size; // of wl_buffer and draw_buffer
int stride; // bytes per line
int width;
unsigned char *draw_buffer; // address of the beginning of the Cairo image surface's byte array
struct wl_callback *cb; // non-NULL while Wayland buffer is being committed
bool draw_buffer_needs_commit; // true when draw_buffer has been modified but not yet committed
cairo_t *cairo_; // used when drawing to the Cairo image surface
};
\anchor output
- struct output is defined inside class \c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver. One such record is
created for each display of the system by function \c registry_handle_global() when it receives a
\c "wl_output" interface. These records are kept in a linked list of them all, and
an identifier of this linked list is stored in member \c outputs of the unique
\c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver object FLTK uses. Thus,
\code
Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver *scr_driver = (Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver*)Fl::screen_driver();
struct wl_list list_of_all_displays = scr_driver->outputs;
\endcode
gives access, the Wayland way, to the linked list of displays in the system.
struct output { // one record for each display
uint32_t id; // an identifier of the display
short width; // = nber of horizontal pixels / wld_scale
short height; // = nber of vertical pixels / wld_scale
float dpi; // at this point, always 96.
struct wl_output *wl_output;
int wld_scale; // Wayland scale factor
float gui_scale; // FLTK scale factor
struct wl_list link; // links these records together
};
\anchor seat
- struct seat is defined in file \c Fl_Wayland_Screen_Driver.H. One such record is
created for each seat (e.g., a collection of displays, a keyboard and a mouse) of the system by
function \c registry_handle_global() when it receives a \c "wl_seat" or
\c wl_data_device_manager_interface.name interface.
struct seat {
struct wl_seat *wl_seat;
struct wl_pointer *wl_pointer;
struct wl_keyboard *wl_keyboard;
uint32_t keyboard_enter_serial;
struct wl_surface *keyboard_surface;
struct wl_list link;
struct wl_list pointer_outputs;
struct wl_cursor_theme *cursor_theme;
struct wl_cursor *default_cursor;
struct wl_surface *cursor_surface;
struct wl_surface *pointer_focus;
int pointer_scale;
uint32_t serial;
uint32_t pointer_enter_serial;
struct wl_data_device_manager *data_device_manager;
struct wl_data_device *data_device;
struct wl_data_source *data_source;
struct xkb_state *xkb_state;
struct xkb_context *xkb_context;
struct xkb_keymap *xkb_keymap;
struct xkb_compose_state *xkb_compose_state;
char *name;
struct zwp_text_input_v3 *text_input;
};
\section wayland-doc Documentation resources
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The Wayland Protocol
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Extensive introduction to Wayland programming written by the Wayland author,
unfortunately unachieved.
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Wayland Explorer
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Documentation of all Wayland protocols, both stable and unstable. A language-independent syntax is used which makes function names usable in the C language not always obvious. Also some useful functions seem undocumented here for an unclear reason.
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Wayland Protocol Specification
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Documentation for all functions of the Wayland core protocol.
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Wayland clipboard and drag & drop
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Detailed explanation of how clipboard and drag-and-drop work under Wayland.
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Wayland and input methods
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Blog article introducing to the issue of text input methods under Wayland.
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Input Method Hub
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Entry page for input method support giving newcomers a first understanding of what input
methods are and how they are implemented in Wayland.
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*/