Waylandsink: disabling keyboard focus

[Matthew Waters]

On 23/3/22 20:09, Terry Barnaby via gstreamer-devel wrote:
> I am creating a video processing application that will run on an NXP
> IMX8MP embedded platform using GStreamer with Qt on a Wayland display.
> This is using the NXP imx hardknott imx-5.10.52-2.1.0 release.
>
> I have this mostly working but I am having a few lockup problems
> probably due to Waylandsink vs Qt and perhaps threads.
>
> As a workaround for now I have been trying to configure a gstreamer
> pipeline to use its own created Waylandsink Wayland surface and just
> position it over the area of the application. However the Waylandsink
> takes over keyboard/mouse focus from the program. Is there any way of
> preventing this on the waylandsink ?
>
>
> As to my main problem when I set the Waylandsink's surface to be that
> of an existing QWidgets surface in a gstBusCallback() function it all
> works eventually (and the program has keyboard focus) but there is a
> large delay before the video plays after a
> gst_element_set_state(ogstPipeline, GST_STATE_PLAYING);. It appears
> the program hangs in wl_display_read_events() awaiting a Mutex. Moving
> the mouse (or sending mouse events via /dev/uinput) unlocks it. I
> attach some bits of my test code that shows this. Any pointers as to
> what may be happening and how to fix this ?

This is an issue with Qt and Wayland presumably before this commit was
added to Qt: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwayland/+/301712.

You would need a Qt build with that patch to avoid the wayland event
processing happening in multiple threads from having a small chance of
deadlocking inside Qt.

Cheers
-Matt
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