When using DRI2, Mesa uses XESetWireToEvent to hook into Xlib's event
handling loop, so it can get notified when certain DRI2 event happens,
which is crucial to the normal functioning of GLX.
When xcb is owning the event queue (meaning libxcb is doing all the
event handling), those functions registered by Mesa will never be
called, thus GLX will malfunction, leading to screen flickers or visual
artifacts.
This commit uses a hack from Qt to manually call those functions in
compton.
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Multipass blur is not properly implemented for xrender backend. There is
visible artifacts when it is used. And it is quite difficult to
implement correctly and efficiently for the xrender backend.
Print a warning message for multipass blur so we can survey whether it
is actually been used.
No functionality is removed in this commit.
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Setting it on the target buffer picture has no effect. Fix performance
problem when using xrender with virtual box.
Fixes#40
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This reverts commit 50e2259404.
Temporarily revert the removal until we have more information about this whole
thing.
Turns out a couple of drivers don't work properly without the sync fence,
including intel, llvmpipe and NVIDIA.
Although sync fence is needed, from the information I have gathered (looking
at old bug reports, protocol specifications, look at other compositors' code),
compton's usage of it is not proper. So we need to rewrite it in the future,
after we get more information from driver developers.
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It will cause compton to print out some rudimentary diagnostics.
Also small improvements of the meson.build.
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Use optnone instead, this does require a more recent clang though. In
general, just don't use -ffast-math.
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Interesting this problem only surface when using GTK applications on
KDE. Maybe on other WMs there are some other events after window
restacking that triggers repaint of the window.
Fixes#28
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This was a dubious "fix" for a Nvidia driver problem. The problem was
never fully understood, and the then developers took a shotgun approach
and implemented xsync fences as a fix. Which somehow fixed the problem.
Again, I don't see any indication that the developers understood why
this "fix" worked.
(for details, see chjj/compton#152 and chjj/compton#181)
The driver problem should have been fixed almost 5 years ago. So this
shouldn't be needed anymore. In addition the way compton uses xsync fences
is apparently wrong according to the xsync spec (fences are attached to
screen, but compton uses them as if they were attached to drawables).
So, I will try removing it and see if anyone will complain. If there are
real concrete reasons why fences are needed, it will be brought back.
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This is a potentially useful feature for debugging the xrender backend,
so make it a commandline option rather than an obscure compiler flag.
Also this is only usable with xrender, for glx there are better tools
for debugging.
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--dbe does not seem to have an effect on tearing, as noted in the old
manpage, and confirmed by my own testing.
So remove it, since it complicates the logic of painting.
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This way we don't need to update the bounding region after window moves.
Also add some comments about the coordinate systems in compton.
Also change a few function that takes a `bool global` parameter to
always return region in local coordinates.
win_rounded_corners is called by win_updated_bounding_shape, so there is
no need for the former to call the later.
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IANAL, but I think I am allowed to add missing copyright notices for
someone else. And I did my best job using git history to figure out who
wrote which functions. So I hope everything is fine.
Bugs:
* There seems to be a noticeable frame loss when window
is being opened/closed. But the same problem also exists
in master/next, so this is not a regression.
* Using --sw-opti and --benchmark at the same time causing
compton to draw more frequently than permitted by the
arguments. That is because the sleep interval calculation
is flawed. Not really a regression either.
Verified still working:
* Usual painting
* Fade
* Benchmark mode
* --sw-opti (with or without benchmark mode)
* DBus
* Unredir delay
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Re-did the painting logic, and document it.
It is unclear to me what is the previous painting logic. But the current
one is basically this:
1. Go through all windows top to bottom, and put visible windows (not
unmapped, opacity > 0, etc) into a linked list, from bottom to top
2. Accumulate a region of ignore on each window, which is basically the
region of screen that is obscured by all the windows above current
one.
3. Paint all the visible windows from bottom to top. Subtract the region
of ignore from the painting region. If we need to paint shadow, we
subtract the body of the window from the shadow painting region too,
because we don't want shadow behind the window.
4. region of ignore is invalidated when window stack change, an
window on top moved or changed shape, when window changed between
opaque and transparent, etc.
Notes:
It is unclear whether all the different shapes of a window (extents,
noframe, border, bounding shape, etc) are calculated correctly or not.
It is unclear if window shape related events are handled correctly or
not. Need more testing.
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Change `win *` to `win **`, because a window could be freed by the
callback, so we can set `*w` to NULL to communicate that.
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Also remove some debug function calls (there are better tools for opengl
debugging now). Also remove copysubbuffermesa
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Instead use win_has_alpha to check for alpha channel, window mode is
reserved for determine if the window is possibly transparent.
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If an X event is received at a very specific point in time, it can trigger
a race condition in Xlib. Said event will be read, but Xlib will
nonetheless be completely unaware of the event.
This cause compton to sometimes block on select() while there are events
ready to be processed. If the event is a damage report, screen freeze
will happen until some other event is received.
The proper fix is to switch to xcb for event handling, thus avoid this
problem entirely.
There seems to be a race between DamageAdd (what the client uses
to report damage to Xserver) and DamageSubtract (what compton uses
to clear the reported damage, so it can receive new ones). I am not
sure how to confirm this. But this (terrible) workaround seems to
solve this problem.
* Move code around
* Remove unneeded forward declaration
* Rename win->damaged to win->ever_damaged, to be less confusing
* Expose debug functions even when DEBUG is not enabled. Compiler
would remove the dead code for us anyway.
* Some code cleanup
Also move static function prototypes out of compton.h. Seems like the
previous developers didn't know what header files are for.
Seems to have bugs after the split.
Yuxuan Shui