Support for other compositors (KDE, Gnome, ...)

[Ferdi265]

There are a few things that need to be done for wl-mirror to work on other compositors than sway / wlroots:

• Make wayland proxy binding code a bit more robust (crashes on Gnome currently, since globals appear in a different order)
• Implement XDG Desktop Portal backend (Support XDG Desktop Portal / Pipewire screencasting #16)
• Add support for requesting server side decorations with XDG Decorations or the KDE Decoration Protocol
  • solved by libdecor (merged into main)
• Add client-side decorations for Gnome / Mutter (which does not support XDG Decorations)
  • solved by libdecor (merged into main)

The last of these is likely going to be a long way off, if it is ever implemented. Since wl-mirror does not use a toolkit, adding client-side decorations would involve a whole new level of complexity since that would require handling mouse input and seats.

[Ferdi265]

For client-side decorations, libdecor could also be an option, if it's easily possible to add it to our event loop unintrusively (it seems to have its own dispatch function that replaces wl_display_dispatch in the examples)

[Ferdi265]

I started implementing libdecor support for server and client side window decorations. Current progress tracked in branch feature-libdecor.

Currently it's still a little buggy, especially on sway. Window movement and resizing seems to work fine on KDE, but the feature is definitely far from being implemented correctly.

[Ferdi265]

It seems I found the fix for the flickering resize on sway: I was committing the libdecor frame and resizing the EGL surface in the wrong order.

I think this now just needs a small bit of cleanup, and then decoration support is done, ticking two of the above boxes.

[Ferdi265]

With libdecor and the xdg portals backend, wl-mirror will now work on KDE and Gnome!

Both branches are still experimental and aren't finalized/merged yet, but apparently this started working just on its own!

The combined code can be tested in branch feature-libdecor-xdg-portal and requires the CMake options -DWITH_LIBDECOR=ON and -DWITH_XDG_PORTAL_BACKEND=ON to be enabled. After that, you can test it with ./build/wl-mirror -b xdg-portal eDP-1 (you need to name a valid output, but that gets ignored and replaced by the picker, this will be fixed in the final version)

KDE

Gnome

[Ferdi265]

libdecor support is now merged into main.