Relative Pointer Protocol, Pointer Locking & Confinement Land In Wayland's Weston

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Relative Pointer Protocol, Pointer Locking & Confinement Land In Wayland's Weston

Wayland's Weston reference compositor picked up support for some new features this morning...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Relative-Pointer-Weston

[kenjitamura]

So has Weston yet reached feature parity with modern X11 compositors? If not what's still missing?

[duby229]

This is fantastic news. This is an issue that not even xorg handles well. Right now the very best solution is wine with virtual desktop. It sucks. I really hope this solves the issue for wayland compositors once and for all.

[AnAk]

Unfortunately the SDL support has still not been merged, so it won't work with any Valve games.

[andre30correia]

Unfortunately the SDL support has still not been merged, so it won't work with any Valve games.

sdl already exists for wayland and mir, at least experimental sdl 2.0.2 and up. for some time already

[ssokolow]

sdl already exists for wayland and mir, at least experimental sdl 2.0.2 and up. for some time already

I think he's saying that SDL hasn't yet been updated to speak the relative pointer protocol when operating under Wayland.

[Krejzi]

If you're up to building SDL2 yourself, here:

https://bitbucket.org/jadahl/sdl/commits/all

Note that X apps running under Xwayland don't have this feature yet as Xwayland server needs to be updated.

https://github.com/jadahl/xserver/commits/wip/xwayland-pointer-warp

It still a WIP, and jadahl said that, while he got some games to behave, others still have issues. It's mostly corner cases that's left.
Another issue is that even if you use this patched Xwayland, it won't work well without patched weston, for which I haven't found patches yet.

However, GNOME's mutter has been patched for that:

https://github.com/jadahl/mutter/commits/wip/xwayland-pointer-warps

[Ancurio]

I'm so happy that there's finally a clean solution for this. No more pointer warping!

[davidbepo]

If you're up to building SDL2 yourself, here:

https://bitbucket.org/jadahl/sdl/commits/all

Note that X apps running under Xwayland don't have this feature yet as Xwayland server needs to be updated.

https://github.com/jadahl/xserver/commits/wip/xwayland-pointer-warp

It still a WIP, and jadahl said that, while he got some games to behave, others still have issues. It's mostly corner cases that's left.
Another issue is that even if you use this patched Xwayland, it won't work well without patched weston, for which I haven't found patches yet.

However, GNOME's mutter has been patched for that:

https://github.com/jadahl/mutter/com...-pointer-warps

thanks for sharing that info and thanks to jadahl to sort out one of my wayland bugs


the other is no desktop icons

[waxhead]

I just hope that they plan for some karate trick to get hold of the pointer again if you really need it. For example a hilarious keyboard combo + mouse click pattern or something. Nothing sucks more than having a stuck pointer/keyboard and that usually results in a RESTART (and that is so Windows)