The Wakefield committers may hold off-line discussions from time-to-time. Since these meetings are just for the committers and invited wayland experts, summary minutes will be recorded here as time permits
Online Zoom Meeting 9am PDT 5th May 2022
Attendees: Phil, Kevin, Alexander Zvegintsev, Victor, Zhengyu Gu, Niels de Graef, Maxim Kartashev, Jonas Adahl, Olivier Fourdan, Mario Torres
Alexander : Ubuntu 2204 - no difference from previous releases
Looking at bug where mouse exit event not coming but works fine on native wayland app
Maxim : Nikita has done some work so fonts are being rendered although without hints and AA and sub-pixel but basic rendering working
Also (Maxim) made a preliminary prototype of how we want to start testing pure wayland - custom extension ..
He wasn't able to merge into openjdk repo [Kevin : Maxim missed a step in his project acceptances]
Code available through JB runtime repo
https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime/tree/wayland-dev/src/java.desktop/share/native/libwakefield
Maxim gave a quick demo of test framework
Lanuch a custom weston instance with Maxim's plugin so you aren't updating the running
desktop so no admin permissions required
The plugin gives access to weston internals -
provides wayland protocols which could be implemented for some other server
https://github.com/mkartashev/wakefield/blob/main/protocol/wakefield.xml
location of surface in abs coords
set location ..
grab portion of screen
get pixel color
would like someone to code review - Java side OK but plugin code is less obvious
Why doesn't work it with weston 10 when it works with weston 9 .. once you get
into accessing internals you really need to build against the exact version of weston you are targetting.
This testing effort is intended to be a stop-gap until we have a proper solution to running tests on
the wayland desktop - not imagined as a solution we can deliver as part of OpenJDK
Online Zoom Meeting 9am PDT 7th April 2022
Attendees: Alexey Ushakov, Olivier Fourdan, Niels de Graef, Jonas Adhal, Sergey Bylokohov,
Alexander Zvegintsev, Zhengyu Gu, Phil Race, Kevin Rushforth, Victor Dyakov
Alexey :
Working on pure wayland, can show AWT and Swing frames with sime simple rendering in paintComponent
Nikita working on font rendering. Will push to branch on openJDK when ready.
3rd thing is AWT robot - Maxim is providing custom extension to Weston instance to get it working.
Alexander : does extension cover screen shot + key press : yes - works even for multimon ...
this is useful for testing but not for production
Sergey : how difficult to install this extension ?
Alexander: Reported a bug about XOR rendering but it could be a driver bug ?
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1333
Screencast still not usable because have to configure it manually every time you start a session
So weston extension looks more promising (for testing)
Need some scripting support
Jonas: maybe not running in a sandbox or something - should be possible to make it remember
what you selected in a dialog.
Maybe be missing a way for portal to associate request with application ID
Screencasting portal configures a token that should make it possible
Screenshot portal doesn't remember that _yet_ though
You can follow this issue for the latter: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/649
Niels De Graef : Note that a wl extension protocol that disables security features like that probably won't fly in any compositor
( Jonas & Niels?) : AI: Are there any particualr JDK requirements around input methods - there is a slow moving project
to update in update flawed gtk3 4 protocol .. Phil will have to get back on that after asking around.
Online Zoom Meeting 9am PST 10th Mar 2022
Attendees : Maxim, Olivier Jonas, Alexey, Niels De Graef, Phil, Alexander, Kevin, Victor
Alexander : has been doing testing of current JDK on Oracle Linux 8.5
This uses gnome 3.32 - old gnome shell - so not getting recent fixes
So just a point of reference
Getting some new failures (tests that passed before ) on Ubuntu 21.04 and 21.10 - likely this is due to updated OpenGL drivers
Some JDK screen shot tests failing but need to implement something so not an unexpected problem
Olivier : update on Drag and Drop - the upstream fixes have landed in gnome 42 and 40
Niels :
X.org not likely to be removed any time soon by any distro as most are oonly just switching to
wayland as the default. So we have time. Perhaps some cutting edge distro will be first but not soon.
Alexey : Up date on pure wayland work - trying to support just one AWT button but needed to bring in
whole AWT hierarchy - meaning a lot of the equivalent of the Xawt toolkit.
Kind of working but faced with problem of placing location of windows on desktop
can only provide coords for popup surfaces We've talked before about this being part of the design philosophy of wayland
Surely this is needed even for applications that try to place their windows relative to each other ?
Jonas: this has come up in discussions about whether it makes sense ..
GIMP might need this ? Well maybe not GIMP because it is moving away from multiple images but
some medical applications have a need .. but it may be more like session management
1st time launch rearrange your windows. then the extension protocol can be used to save this.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/18
[ Editor : I'm not sure if this would work for JDK needs and how would we expose that protocol to apps ?
It can't just be "java" as that's the platform not the application.]
Alexey is focused on the rendering side. Dmitry Batrak will be looking at event handling.
And Maxim is thinking about Robot - prototyping some new approach to automated testing ... run tests in a weston instance on top of X11 ?
Only useful for testing. Using a custom protocol extension.
Peter Hutterer working on libei and has made a 0.2 release Jonas working on it too.
Concentrating on 2 parts : capturing events and other is sending input events
feature where input captured from compositor - like Synergy which forked into Barrier and then again
That project is to share input devices across multiple computers mouse events go to the other computer when the mouse
goes off edge of screen and emulate events on other computer
API mostly written down but not yet stable.
Peter Hutterer made a 0.2 pre-release.
Blog here :
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2022/03/libei-adding-support-for-passive.html
In the world of sandboxing and flatpak not guaranteed that they have same version of a library.
So not going to make it into any distro even as a pre-release until API and wire format are stable.
Online Zoom Meeting 9am PST 10th Feb 2022
Attendees: Kevin, Victor, Olivier, Mario, Aleksandr, Alexey Ushakov, Maxim Kartashev, Sergey, Zdenek, Zhengyu, Dalibor
Discussion:
We went through all of the open issues on the WIki. Aleksandr will update the bugs with the latest status. The suggestion was made to group them by their status into 2 or three groups (unresolved, fix in progress, resolved). For the unresolved issues, they could be prioritized.
1. JDK-8280982 : java.awt.Robot taking screenshots
Needs to be solved by the Portal team. Not limited to Wayland. This is the number one issue in terms of importance. There is a bug filed against Portal in the flatpak project.
We spent some time discussing the current limitations. What we ultimately need is something that only needs to be configured once by an administrator, and will not produce a popup. Another limitation that needs to be overcome is that the current workarounds only capture the entire screen, which is not sufficient for an API that is often used to read small regions (or a single pixel). This will be too slow. Another idea was discussed to throw a security exception in the screen capture API, but that would require a spec change. It's also not what Java2D does on other platforms (e.g., Mac) when the proper permissions haven't been granted.
2. JDK-8280983 : java.awt.Robot emulating keyboard/mouse events
No new information. Solving this using libEI will be best, and will also solve one of the below issues, but there is no time frame as to when we might expect a fix.
Additionally, using libEI should fix following:
JDK-8280995 : X11 compatibility: Robot.mouseMove does not visually move mouse cursor
JDK-8280990 : X11 compatibility: XTest emulated mouse click does not bring window to front.
JDK-8280988 : X11 compatibility: Click on title to request focus test failures
The last of the above two can be worked around by test changes, but using libEI is a better solution.
3. JDK-8280993 X11 compatibility: Popup menu dismiss in X11 compatibility mode.
This one should be fixable.
4. JDK-8280991 X11 compatibility: fake configure event for XRandR emulation
Should already be fixed in latest version
5. JDK-8280985 X11 compatibility: Wayland crash on huge window
Already fixed
6. JDK-8280987 X11 compatibility: crash when mapping a lot of windows
There are two issues here: one is that we are running out of file descriptors, the other is that this will fill up the Wayland buffers. The first is a simple fix (In progress). The second fix in Wayland itself, not XWayland. It's also in progress, but is a complex fix.
7. JDK-8280992 X11 compatibility: Custom colored cursor might be displayed in black and white
Aleksandr will file a bug if he can come up with a simple reproducer
There are additional issues specific to pure Wayland mode that still need to be filed (this needs more discussion).
Online Zoom Meeting 9am PST 27th Jan 2022
Attendees : Olivier, Phil, Kevin, Aleksandr,, Victor, Niels De Graaf, Alexey Ushakov, Jonas, Sergey, Zdenek, Zhengyu
Aleksandr :
Ubuntu 20.04 - some test problems - tests passed on 20.10 and 21.04
XOR
Memory leak tests - need to increase xMax heap
Mouse enter/exit events
Not always clear if Java problem or Wayland
Let's not spend/waste time on older OSes even LTS versions they'll never have
all the support we need anyway.
Working on migrating bugs / issues just documented on internal wiki to JBS using release==internal
Olivier : DnD also fixed in new OSes
Xwayland is not involved in DnD or copy/paste - standard x atoms
Wayland compositor or applications - x app knows nothing about wayland native so it
is the wayland compositor which does the translation
So doing DnD mutter has to map X11 window and use that to translate
Upstream Gnome 42 fix not yet backported to gnome 41 used by Fedora 35 ..
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2042
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2259
Can you use latest mutter from main on older OS ? Olivier or Jonas (?) - possible but sounded like a bunch of steps
he will find docs on this
Ed : I think this is the doc meant : https://gitlab.gnome.org/exalm/jhbuild-steps/-/wikis/JHBuild-on-Fedora
Alexey : trying native wayland port rendering using J2D s/w rendering.
Need to fit wayland model to our surface architecture ? Will create a branch in project repo.
Also (AI) will update wiki with info on this
Niels : updated wiki to more clearly describe JDK issues where there are gaps in wayland support
Do AWT Robot docs offer a "way out".
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.desktop/java/awt/Robot.html
Note that some platforms require special privileges or extensions to access low-level input control. If the current platform configuration does not allow input control, an AWTExceptionwill be thrown when trying to construct Robot objects. For example, X-Window systems will throw the exception if the XTEST 2.2 standard extension is not supported (or not enabled) by the X server.
Applications that use Robot for purposes other than self-testing should handle these error conditions gracefully.
These words are not intended to say you can be conformant - more about advice that you
may need to update settings add packages to mke your desktop supported.
Analogies such as makung sure you have required X11 packages installed and headful support is available.
Zdenek : Fedora rawhide - dev version of Fedora may be a way of getting VERY latest ahead of a Fedora release
Online Zoom Meeting 9am PST 13th Jan 2022
Attendees : Olivier, Phil, Kevin, Aleksandr, Dalibor, Victor, Niels De Graaf, Alexey Ushakov, Jonas, Mario
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