Introducing xwayland and xf86-video-wlshm

[darxus at chaosreigns.com]

Any chance of updating this to work with wayland v0.85?

I'd love to see X clients working with wayland.

On 06/21, Corentin Chary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I started working a few weeks ago on Xorg hosted mode (X running as a
> wayland client) which was available at
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~krh/xserver/log/?h=hosted .
> 
> With krh, we decided to rename it xwayland instead of hosted, mainly
> because the goal of hosted was to provide an abstract mechanism to
> host an X server inside another graphic system, but that abstraction
> was dropped eventually.
> 
> The previous "hosted" code needed cooperation from the video driver,
> and only xf86-video-intel available in krh's tree provided that. With
> xwayland, we still need that, but since I don't have an intel video
> card, I also created xf86-video-wlshm which is a "fake" video driver
> that work without real hardware. This driver really make things easy
> to test, since you don't need any specific hardware, and if it crash
> or do something wrong, it will only crash a userspace process, and
> your hardware won't burn into flames.
> 
> 
> So, what's new in xwayland ?
> =====================
> 
> - rebased on xorg's master
> - updated to follow wayland changes
> - new input code, using xf86 input drivers
> - improved stability, fixed memory corruptions and removed some leaks
> 
> How can use it ?
> ============
> 
> I'll assume that you have a working wayland setup, if not, you can
> always follow that: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html
> I'll also assume that I'll your wayland stuff is installed in
> /home/user/dev/wl/local/
> 
> xwayland: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~iksaif/xserver/
> $ cd xserver
> $ git checkout -b xwayland origin/xwayland
> $ CFLAGS="-O0 -ggdb3"
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/user/dev/wl/local/lib/pkgconfig/:/home/user/dev/wl/local/share/pkgconfig/
> sh autogen.sh --prefix=/home/user/dev/wl/local --disable-dri
> --disable-dri2 --disable-config-hal --enable-unix-transport
> --enable-tcp-transport --disable-config-udev --disable-config-dbus
> --disable-xaa --enable-libdrm --disable-xnest --disable-xvfb
> --disable-dmx --disable-xvmc --disable-dga --disable-screensaver
> --disable-xdmcp --disable-xdm-auth-1 --disable-glx --disable-xinerama
> --disable-xace
> $ make
> $ make install
> 
> xf86-videp-wlshm: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~iksaif/xf86-video-wlshm/
> $ cd xf86-video-wlshm
> $ sh autogen.sh --prefix=/home/user/dev/wl/local
> $ make
> $ make install
> 
> xf86-video-intel: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~krh/xf86-video-intel/
> $ cd xf86-video-intel
> $ git checkout -b xwayland origin/xwayland
> $ sh autogen.sh --prefix=/home/user/dev/wl/local
> $ make
> $ make install
> 
> $ mkdir -p /home/user/dev/wl/local/etc/X11
> $ cat > /home/user/dev/wl/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf <<EOF
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier "Device"
>         Driver "wlshm" # or intel
> EndSection
> EOF
> $ ./my-wayland-compositor
> $ cd /home/uer/dev/wl/
> $ ./local/bin/Xorg -wayland -rootless :1
> 
> And voila ! now you should be able to run some X client on DISPLAY=:1
> 
> Some results, using qwidget-compositor-mid:
> - firefox + adobe-flash-plugin:
> http://xf.iksaif.net/dev/wayland/xwayland-flash.png
> - dwm + xterm + xeyes: http://xf.iksaif.net/dev/wayland/xwayland-flash.png
> - chrome + compiz + WolfenQt: http://twitpic.com/5d92f4
> 
> What's left to do ?
> =============
> 
> update screen geometry
> ----------------------
> how ? virtualbox have an .. interesting approach to do that.
> 
> window geometry
> ---------------
> X11::_Screen::MoveWindow()     |  wl_shell_resize()
> X11::_Screen::PositionWindow() |  wl_shell_move()
> X11::_Screen::ResizeWindow()   |
> 
> wl_shell_listener::configure() | X11::ConfigureWindow()
> 
> clipboard
> ---------
> - special path for X11<->X11 ? Does it work now ?
> - how can we control X11 clipboard inside an extension ?
> - Wayland -> wl_shell_create_selection()
> 
> drag&drop
> ---------
> how do will we do that on X11 side ?
> For wayland, simpy use wl_shell_create_drag()
> 
> input grab
> ----------
> does that work ? don't think so...
> 
> 
> What now ?
> ========
> 
> Feel free to come on #wayland if you want to discuss about it, and
> more important, feel free to send patch to implement missing features
> !
> 
> Special Thanks to krh, bnf, daniels others for their help !
> 
> -- 
> Corentin Chary
> http://xf.iksaif.net
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