We only need frame events after device events (pointer, touch,
keyboard). In some cases, the library prevents an event from being
written to the wire, e.g. if the coordinates are out of region, but the
client will still call ei_device_frame() for that now-filtered event.
Keep a boolean to remember if we have sent something that requires a
frame event and filter accordingly.
Note that this currently filters the *sender* side only, not the
receiver side. A sender that gets an empty frame event onto the wire
will still get that into the other side.
This also doesn't handle the flushing of frame events before other
events, ideally we should enforce a frame event before e.g. stop
emulating.
With passive libei contexts receiving events sent by the EIS
implementation, the type of device changes significantly. While a
relative input device could still send data in logical pixels,
absolute devices may not have that luxury.
Best example here is an external tablet (think: Wacom Intuos): that
tablet has no built-in mapping to a screen and thus cannot capture input
events in logical pixels.
Address this by adding a device type, either virtual or physical.
In terms of functionality, the device's type decides:
- only virtual devices have regions
- only physical devices have a size
The event API remains as-is but the event data not represents either
logical pixels (virtual devices) or mm (physical device).
An EIS implementation connected to a passive libei context would likely
create:
- a virtual relative device (sending deltas in logical pixels)
- one or more physical absolute devices (sending deltas in mm)
Previously, a client could only bind to a capability immediately after
SEAT_ADDED and with a rather awkward API to confirm the capabilities.
Change this to allow for dynamic binding of capabilities, i.e. a client
calls ei_bind_capability() or ei_unbind_capability() whenever it feels
like, causing the respective devices of this capabilty to be added or
removed.
This allows for clients that are temporarily disinterested in a
capability but may require said capability later.
The default function takes one capability, a helper for enable/disable
multiple capabilities in one go is provided as well. On the protocol,
only the "bind" request exists which always represents the currently
wanted set of capabilities.
Note that the helper functions for multiple capabilities require NULL
(not zero) as sentinel, thanks to gcc.
Our API requires a client to know which capability to pass into the
drop_capabilities function. This doesn't work for capabilities newer
than the client's version so they do not get disabled. The client will
thus receive devices it didn't ask for and doesn't know how to handle.
Let's invert the requirement and require the caller to confirm the
capabilities it wants - all others are dropped.
This is an API break but also requires updates of all clients, the
previous simple case of just calling ei_seat_bind() will now result in
zero capabilities.
A libei context can be initialized as active or passive context -
an "active" context sends events, a "passive" context receives events.
The EIS context supports both simultaneously, it is up to the
implementation to disconnect libei clients that it does not want to
suppport.
For example, the xdotool use-case creates an active libei context. The
EIS implementation controls and sets up the devices, but libei
sends the events.
In an input-capturing use-case, the EIS implementation controls
and sets up the devices **and** sends the events. libei is merely the
receiver for any event, it cannot send events. Thus this use-case
requires a passive libei context.
Most of this code is copy/paste with minor modifications - libei already
had the code to send events, libeis had the code to receive events, so
the vast majority of this patch is copying the code into the respective
other library, swap "ei" and "eis" and then apply the various minor
modifications needed to hook into the existing library.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
There is data that libei and the EIS implementation will want to
exchange that is not covered by the immediate API.
To avoid having to add APIs for all of these, let's provide a generic
property API that both server and client can use to exchange this info.
The property API provides read/write/delete permissions but those only
apply to the client, not the server. The idea is that a server can
create (or restrict) properties that the client can read but not modify
and/or delete. A special-case are properties filled in automatically by
libei: ei.application.pid and ei.application.cmdline. These could be
used by e.g. the portal implementation to match permissions.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This effectively provides the EIS implementation with a notification
that the client will actually send events in the near future. To be used
by e.g. synergy-like clients when the pointer enters the logical screen
so that the EIS implementation can flash a warning or something.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This allows a client to trigger kinetic scrolling (or prevent it).
For compositors implementing EIS, the only realistic scroll source is
continuous which allows for scroll stop events. So let's give the client
the opportunity to trigger those on demand.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Already present in e.g. libinput and wayland, this event allows us to
group several events together to denote them as a logical group.
Required for multi-touch but as we've learned with Wayland it's also
required to group other events (scroll events in the case of Wayland).
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Since the server controls the keymap, and that keymap is likely merged
with some other device let's add the events so we notify the client of
things like numlock-is-down etc.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
There's nothing in the protocol to modify the client device state from
the server, so a pause/resume cycle must leave the client with the
same(-ish) state. Pause is really just that, a short "no event now
please". Anything that would require e.g. modifying the device state by
releasing keys or buttons should result in the device being removed and
re-added.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This keeps most of the current structure but gets rid of client-side
keymaps (which have been broken since the server-side devices anyway).
The new approach: clients get a keymap (or NULL) from the server, if
they don't like it they will have to do transformation on their side.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This isn't something that libei itself uses but clients like synergy
need to know about this to be able to map relative pointer motion from
one host into the right physical pixel on another host.
This is required for mutter in the x11-compat mode where a 4k screen is
logically twice the size of a 2k screen, despite having the same
physical size.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This is required for supporting synergy/barrier and similar clients.
Replacing the touch and pointer range we now have server-defined
rectangular regions that specify the active zones for this device.
For example, a dual-monitor EIS server would create two touch devices
with one region each for the respective monitors - libei-generated
touches would thus fall on the right area of the monitor. Or just one
device with one region if the second screen should be inaccessible.
A relative device may have multiple regions since it can reach all
screens in the layout.
This leaks the screen layout to libei but that is necessary for the
functionality to work. A libei client may need to control devices
through absolute coordinates and it needs to know where screen
transitions from one to the next screen happen:
+-----------++----------------+
| || |
| B||Q |
| |+----------------+
| |
| A|P
+-----------+
In the above example, position P is unreachable and a client that
controls input on both screens must know that it cannot transition from
A to P but it can transition from B to Q.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This is useful for debugging, let's pass it through and let the log
handler decide whether to use it or not.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Once a device is removed, it is moved to the seat's devices_removed
list and the seat's ref is dropped - meaning the seat no longer keeps
the device alive. Once the caller's refcounts drop, the device can be
destroyed.
The device still keeps the seat alive though through a ref.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This changes the protocol so that it is the EIS implementation that
creates devices within a seat.
A client now "binds" to a seat and the EIS implementation creates
devices matching the requested capabilities. A client can close a device
if it no longer wants those but otherwise everything (including pointer
ranges) is handled by the server.
This is one giant patch because changes at the protocol level cannot
easily be broken out into smaller patches. Some FIXMEs are left which
will be handled in follow-up patches, e.g. the keymap handling is
basically broken right now.
Fixes#7
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Once the SEAT_REMOVED event has been processed, adding new devices is
pointless. But we do promise a DEVICE_REMOVED event for any device added with
ei_device_add(), so let's immediately queue an event and mark the device as
dead.
Since the SEAT_REMOVED event may still be pending in the queue (i.e. not yet
read by the client), we need to prepend the event to the queue. Note that
client that immediately add a device when a device is removed will cause
an infinite loop.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Previously we didn't always clean up properly, especially where unexpected
removals happened. So the new approach is:
- the device always has a ref to the seat, we must not remove the seat until
even not-yet-added devices are released
- the seat has a ref to the device *after* it was added. this is a circular
ref so we need to make sure the device is manually removed from the seat
so we can actually reach a refcount 1
This is made slightly more complicated by us calling ei_disconnect() whenever
we fail to write on the fd. The result is re-entrant functions that we need to
protect against inadvertent changes. The best option here is probably to mark
the context as degraded and clean up once we finished whatever we were really
doing - that's a larger rework though.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Removing a seat could cause two device remove events to happen. Fix this by
splitting the removal up into two bits: removed by server and removed by
client. Only once both bits are set, remove the device.
This needs to happen in libei and libeis.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
After CONNECT, the EIS implementation needs to add one or more seats. The
libei client can only create devices within those seats. This mirrors the
wayland hierarchy as well as the X.Org one.
The seat has a set of allowed capabilities, so the client knows ahead of time
when it may not be possible to create a specific device.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This fits better with the rest of the API and also fits much nicer into the
most common use-case of "device doesn't have a keymap".
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Client-side the approach is a managed touch object rather than passing the
touchid around. This is intentional, it allows for a stackable API in the
future if we need to add things like pressure or major/minor to it.
On the server side the touches are managed through the event object anyway, so
we don't need the same abstraction there.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
The current implementation of that portal has two methods: EmulateInput to
authenticate and Connect to get the fd to the EIS implementation. The portal
implementation is in charge of finding EIS and restricting it if need be.
This uses libsystemd because we can integrate that with epoll and our
libei_dispatch() method. GDBus requires a glib mainloop, so it's not really
suitable here. Given how simple this is anyway, it's easy to just do the DBus
bits in the caller and then hand the fd to ei_setup_backend_fd().
A eis-fake-portal is provided for testing, this "portal" can use the custom
portal bus name and connect the eis-demo-client to the eis-demo-server.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
The logger utilities are useful for quick prototyping, but we've reached the
point where we need the "proper" implementation of a log handler.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
This was already spelled out in the documentation but just not yet
implemented. New starting state for any device added by EIS is "suspended",
the server needs to explicitly resume it before events are accepted.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Original idea of 1/1000 of a pixel was to allow subpixels while sending fixed
width down the wire. Let's not care about that and use doubles instead.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
There's relatively little benefit here since we won't have a lot of different
events and any caller will do the switch based on the event type anyway.
So let's just export a single event type and have everything contained in
that.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
