[PATCH wayland-protocols v6 1/2] Introduce keyboard grabbing protocol for Xwayland

Jonas Ådahl jadahl at gmail.com
Tue Jul 11 08:37:29 UTC 2017


On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 06:10:01PM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> This patch introduces a new protocol for grabbing the keyboard from
> Xwayland.
> 
> This is needed for X11 applications that map an override redirect window
> (thus not focused by the window manager) and issue an active grab on the
> keyboard to capture all keyboard events.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan at redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>

Reviewed-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com>

and pushed.

Thanks!

> ---
>  Makefile.am                                        |   1 +
>  unstable/xwayland-keyboard-grab/README             |   4 +
>  .../xwayland-keyboard-grab-unstable-v1.xml         | 121 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 126 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 unstable/xwayland-keyboard-grab/README
>  create mode 100644 unstable/xwayland-keyboard-grab/xwayland-keyboard-grab-unstable-v1.xml
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> index e693afa..12465e6 100644
> --- a/Makefile.am
> +++ b/Makefile.am
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ unstable_protocols =								\
>  	unstable/tablet/tablet-unstable-v2.xml			                \
>  	unstable/xdg-foreign/xdg-foreign-unstable-v1.xml			\
>  	unstable/idle-inhibit/idle-inhibit-unstable-v1.xml			\
> +	unstable/xwayland-keyboard-grab/xwayland-keyboard-grab-unstable-v1.xml	\
>  	$(NULL)
>  
>  stable_protocols =								\
> diff --git a/unstable/xwayland-keyboard-grab/README b/unstable/xwayland-keyboard-grab/README
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..dbe45a5
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/unstable/xwayland-keyboard-grab/README
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +Xwayland keyboard grabbing protocol
> +
> +Maintainers:
> +Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan at redhat.com>
> diff --git a/unstable/xwayland-keyboard-grab/xwayland-keyboard-grab-unstable-v1.xml b/unstable/xwayland-keyboard-grab/xwayland-keyboard-grab-unstable-v1.xml
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..be4992f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/unstable/xwayland-keyboard-grab/xwayland-keyboard-grab-unstable-v1.xml
> @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> +<protocol name="xwayland_keyboard_grab_unstable_v1">
> +
> +  <copyright>
> +    Copyright © 2017 Red Hat Inc.
> +
> +    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> +    copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
> +    to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
> +    the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
> +    and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
> +    Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
> +
> +    The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
> +    paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
> +    Software.
> +
> +    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
> +    IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> +    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
> +    THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
> +    LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
> +    FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
> +    DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
> +  </copyright>
> +
> +  <description summary="Protocol for grabbing the keyboard from Xwayland">
> +    This protocol is application-specific to meet the needs of the X11
> +    protocol through Xwayland. It provides a way for Xwayland to request
> +    all keyboard events to be forwarded to a surface even when the
> +    surface does not have keyboard focus.
> +
> +    In the X11 protocol, a client may request an "active grab" on the
> +    keyboard. On success, all key events are reported only to the
> +    grabbing X11 client. For details, see XGrabKeyboard(3).
> +
> +    The core Wayland protocol does not have a notion of an active
> +    keyboard grab. When running in Xwayland, X11 applications may
> +    acquire an active grab inside Xwayland but that cannot be translated
> +    to the Wayland compositor who may set the input focus to some other
> +    surface. In doing so, it breaks the X11 client assumption that all
> +    key events are reported to the grabbing client.
> +
> +    This protocol specifies a way for Xwayland to request all keyboard
> +    be directed to the given surface. The protocol does not guarantee
> +    that the compositor will honor this request and it does not
> +    prescribe user interfaces on how to handle the respond. For example,
> +    a compositor may inform the user that all key events are now
> +    forwarded to the given client surface, or it may ask the user for
> +    permission to do so.
> +
> +    Compositors are required to restrict access to this application
> +    specific protocol to Xwayland alone.
> +
> +    Warning! The protocol described in this file is experimental and
> +    backward incompatible changes may be made. Backward compatible
> +    changes may be added together with the corresponding interface
> +    version bump.
> +    Backward incompatible changes are done by bumping the version
> +    number in the protocol and interface names and resetting the
> +    interface version. Once the protocol is to be declared stable,
> +    the 'z' prefix and the version number in the protocol and
> +    interface names are removed and the interface version number is
> +    reset.
> +  </description>
> +
> +  <interface name="zwp_xwayland_keyboard_grab_manager_v1" version="1">
> +    <description summary="context object for keyboard grab manager">
> +      A global interface used for grabbing the keyboard.
> +    </description>
> +
> +    <request name="destroy" type="destructor">
> +      <description summary="destroy the keyboard grab manager">
> +	Destroy the keyboard grab manager.
> +      </description>
> +    </request>
> +
> +    <request name="grab_keyboard">
> +      <description summary="grab the keyboard to a surface">
> +	The grab_keyboard request asks for a grab of the keyboard, forcing
> +	the keyboard focus for the given seat upon the given surface.
> +
> +	The protocol provides no guarantee that the grab is ever satisfied,
> +	and does not require the compositor to send an error if the grab
> +	cannot ever be satisfied. It is thus possible to request a keyboard
> +	grab that will never be effective.
> +
> +	The protocol:
> +
> +	* does not guarantee that the grab itself is applied for a surface,
> +	  the grab request may be silently ignored by the compositor,
> +	* does not guarantee that any events are sent to this client even
> +	  if the grab is applied to a surface,
> +	* does not guarantee that events sent to this client are exhaustive,
> +	  a compositor may filter some events for its own consumption,
> +	* does not guarantee that events sent to this client are continuous,
> +	  a compositor may change and reroute keyboard events while the grab
> +	  is nominally active.
> +      </description>
> +
> +      <arg name="id" type="new_id" interface="zwp_xwayland_keyboard_grab_v1"/>
> +      <arg name="surface" type="object" interface="wl_surface"
> +	   summary="surface to report keyboard events to"/>
> +      <arg name="seat" type="object" interface="wl_seat"
> +	   summary="the seat for which the keyboard should be grabbed"/>
> +    </request>
> +  </interface>
> +
> +  <interface name="zwp_xwayland_keyboard_grab_v1" version="1">
> +    <description summary="interface for grabbing the keyboard">
> +      A global interface used for grabbing the keyboard.
> +    </description>
> +
> +    <request name="destroy" type="destructor">
> +      <description summary="destroy the grabbed keyboard object">
> +	Destroy the grabbed keyboard object. If applicable, the compositor
> +	will ungrab the keyboard.
> +      </description>
> +    </request>
> +  </interface>
> +</protocol>
> -- 
> 2.9.4
> 


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