This will be useful to address the screens by roles/names in the client
and tag rules. Since the sceen rules will make setups where sceens are
attached and removed much easier to work with, using indexes or output
names in the rules becomes a limitation.
When the screens are created from the viewport in Lua, the signal is
sent too early and the DPI and outputs have not yet been added. This
cause the `connect_for_each_screen` callbacks to be called with a
partially initialized screen object. It also causes the drawables to be
repainted too early.
CAPI now emits "_added" and "awful.screen" takes care of emitting
"added".
With this commit, the C code stores if the screen was created with
`fake_screen` and also stores if the Lua side "promise" to manage
(aka, track the viewport and remove it) the object. There is now
3 kind of screens:
* Managed by C (created and deleted by the core code)
* Managed by Lua (replicate the core code, but with more hooks)
* Unmanaged (created directly with fake_screen)
It moves the actual place where when screen array is stored into the
area object. This allows to store the outputs when screens are not
automatically created.
This commit add an optional `--screen off` command to initialize Lua
without first adding the screens. This is inconvinient for most users
since it restrict the APIs that are usable out of the box.
However, this allows AwesomeWM to work independently from the hardware.
This means that when a screen is unplugged, it is the Lua code that will
remove the screen instead of CAPI pulling the carpet from under. It also
allows to ignore some screen areas before the screen is ever created.
Combined, it makes it possible to work with screens even when they are
physically disconnected. Finally, it will allow for an awful.rules like
API to control how screens are created.
All in all, some people need this for their setup and some people might
want to do it anyway for fine grained and/or dynamaic multi-screen
setups.
This commit also adds 4 new signals to `capi` to be able to
execute code at specific points during the initialization. The commit
improves naughty error notifications to work even if problems occurs
before the screens are added.
Note that AwesomeWM will exit if no screens are created. While it would
be easy to just call `refresh_screen();` after unsetting the magic
variable, doing so would have corner cases. Better be harsher and
prevent the user from shooting themselves in the foot from not reading
the f****** manual. Code introduced in future commits will take care
of automatically calling fake_screen in the event nothing is created.
Fixes#1382
This way their name doesn't get mangle by the broken magic. It will also
eventually allow to `error()` in the template when the implicit
`@function` is used.
This commit also fixes a large number of issues found while
proof-reading everything.
ldoc has a magical `@classmod` module type which tries to detect
what is a method and what is a static function. It fails about as
often as it works. This commit makes everything explicit to remove
such issues.
Fixes#2640
Ref #1373
Instead of refreshing screens at the end of the current main loop
iteration, this now uses a GLib idle source with a very low priority.
This increases the chance of batching multiple refreshes together. Also,
this means that awesome_refresh() does less work.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
* Make fake screens permanent
Before this, screen_scan() made sure that awesome's information about
available screens conforms to what the X11 server reports. Since fake
screens are, well, fake, this meant that they were deleted.
This commit marks fake screen and handles them specially in
screen_scan() so that they are not deleted.
Note that I did not test this commit at all since I still haven't
figured out how to test RandR stuff without actually messing with
hardware.
Thanks to @madduck for bringing this up and making me fix this long
standing "huh? is that really supposed to work like that?".
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
When a screen is in the process of being removed, it is still valid, but
no longer in the global list of screens (globalconf.screens). In this
time frame, trying to swap screens could cause a NULL pointer
dereference.
Fix this by throwing a Lua error in this case instead.
Fixes: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/2110
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
The screen object can be indexed by strings to find a screen via some
RANDR output name. However, if a string is used which does not
correspond to a known output, the code just falls through to a function
which will complain "string provided, userdata expected".
This commit provides a slightly more useful error message instead.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
This function tried to move the client to its new screen based on
shifting around its current geometry. However, it assumed that the
client was actually visible on its current screen, which is not always
the case.
Fix this by just forcing the client into its new screen if our moving
approach does not work.
This also reverts commit d5e365804c which
is no longer necessary. This commit only hid the issue (partly).
Fixes: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/318
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
The code here made sure that clients were not moved outside of the root
window. However, that's not enough, because clients can still end up
inside the root window, but outside of anything that is visible in some
output. Thus, just remove this.
Related-to: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/318
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Aborting the process is sometimes a bit harsh for a failed assertion.
This adds a non-fatal assert() macro called "check()" and uses it in
some places where we might be able to survive the error.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Without RandR telling us what the primary screen is, we just pick the
first one. However, the code here did not emit the right signal.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
We have many places where we are sending an XCB request and expect an
answer where the protocol guarantees that no error can occur and we are
sure to get an answer. However, for example if the X11 server crashes,
these places can still fail. This commit tries to handle failures at all
these places.
I went through the code and tried to add missing error checking (well,
NULL-pointer-checking) to all affected places.
In most cases these errors are just silently ignored. The exception is
in screen querying during startup. If, for example, querying RandR info
fails, we will fall back to Xinerama or zaphod mode. This is serious
enough that it warrants a warning. In most cases, we should exit shortly
afterwards anyway, because, as explained above, these requests should
only fail when our connection to the X11 server breaks.
References: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/1205#issuecomment-265869874
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Similarly to what we do with the client list, this signal is emitted
whenever the list of screens changes.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
It does not provide much value. The version number is already known to
ldoc globally in the "description" variable.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
This adds a tparam alias "@screen" for "@tparam screen" (when used to
document e.g. arguments for callbacks), and "@screen_or_idx" when a
function accepts a "screen" or "number".
Why:
* Two different (but related) concepts had the same name
* Users were confused for years on IRC
* The wibar name was already in use in some doc to avoid confusion
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