java.awt.Robot taking screenshots
Problem: The java.awt.Robot class provides createScreenCapture() method which currently uses X11-specific APIs
Discussion:
It is doable as of now, but not in a standard and convenient way. It can be done using some shell specific APIs, e.g. org.gnome.Shell.Screenshot DBUS API (which will not work for KDE, it has it's has another API)
It has several drawbacks:
- There is no direct access to the screenshot data. Screenshot is saved to
pngfile, after that you have to read it, decode it. - Filesystem footprint. You need to save it to some file(its filesystem can be slow). It can be workarounded by using shared memory object though.
- Using DBUS API in this case is really slow. For instance, just a sync DBUS call to take a 1000x1000 screenshot and save it to the shared memory object file is ~14 time slower(it is just saving, without decoding and extracting data) comparing to full X11 implementation.
So, it would be great to get some standard API to get screenshot data in memory. I see that there is an open bug against this issue.
Solution: Use xdg-desktop-portal, a cross-platform stable D-Bus API which works on GNOME, KDE and wlroots-based compositors.
Specifically, it provides org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot which can be used to create a screenshot. A user can deny the request, but that's okay since Robot allows to throw a SecurityException
java.awt.Robot emulating keyboard/mouse events
Problem: The java.awt.Robot class provides methods to emulate input; keyPress(), keyRelease(), mousePress(), mouseRelease()
Discussion:
It mostly works for X11 compatibility mode (except when trying to reach outside XWayland and windows are not restacked on emulated mouse click).
Solution: This will probably be implemented be libEI. However, its shipping time(even estimated) is not yet known.
X11 compatibility: HiDPI.
Problem: Applications running on XWayland look blurry ib HiDPI screens
Discussion:
Quote from Maxim Kartashev's e-mail:
There's a quality-of-service problem with running via the compatibility layer as under certain circumstances native X windows look blurry. Users with small(ish) HiDPI displays tend to enable fractional scaling and with that enabled (regardless of the actual scale), XWayland pretends that the screen size is smaller and then pixel-stretches the resulting window according to the global scale. This works as a temporary solution, but people get quickly tired of looking at text that is blurry.
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/402 and https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/5917 for some more details.
Solution: None for XWayland (yet). Wayland-native applications support HiDPI
X11 compatibility: Popup menu dismiss in X11 compatibility mode.
Problem: We are using XGrabPointer to get mouse input and dismiss popup menus on mouse click. Obviously, it does not work outside of XWayland server.
E.g. if we have shown some popup menu, it will be closed upon clicking on any of XWayland's windows.
But it will not be closed if we click on some other window from Wayland.
For a first look this workaround seems to work reliably except only one case:
clicking on window's title containing origin component does not lead to focus change, thus we don't hiding a popup.
I see a behavior similar to this workaround in some other third party application running on XWayland.
Solution: Can be not perfectly workarounded by dismissing menu on focus lost event
X11 compatibility: fake configure event for XRandR emulation
Problem: We are not getting updates from the system after "changing" screen resolution via XRRSetScreenConfigAndRate.
Discussion:
Excerpt from Olivier's mail:
Also worth noting that the XRandR emulation is per window/X11 client, whereas the root window is shared between all X11 clients, but maybe we could send a fake ConfigureNotify event to the given client, I would need to check if that's doable.
This notification would be helpful.
Solution: Should be resolved with this MR.
X11 compatibility: Wayland crash on huge window
// gcc hugeFrame.c -o hugeFrame -lX11 && ./hugeFrame #include <X11/Xlib.h> #include <unistd.h> static Display* display; int main(void) { int width = 22000; int height = 25000; display = XOpenDisplay(NULL); Window win = XCreateSimpleWindow(display, DefaultRootWindow(display), 0, 0, width, height, 0, 0L, 0L); XMapWindow(display, win); XFlush(display); sleep(1); }
/var/log/syslog shows:
gnome-shell[1248]: WL: error in client communication (pid 1248)
gnome-shell[1298]: (EE)
gnome-shell[1298]: Fatal server error:
gnome-shell[1298]: (EE) wl_shm@5: error 1: invalid size (-2094967296)
gnome-shell[1298]: (EE)
where -2094967296 looks like an integer overflow of 4 * 22000 * 25000
So it fails to create a pool, but doesn't handle it gracefully.
Solution: Resolved by 1 and 2. Waiting for its propagation to Linux distros.
X11 compatibility: crash when mapping a lot of windows
Problem: GUI are crashing if you are trying to map a lot( > ~260) of windows at once.
Discussion:
Filed as xorg/xserver/-/issues/1222.
// gcc windowSpawnDoS.c -o windowSpawnDoS -lX11 && ./windowSpawnDoS
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(void) {
XInitThreads();
Display* dpy = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
Window root = DefaultRootWindow(dpy);
for (int i = 0; i < 500; ++i) {
Window ww = XCreateSimpleWindow(dpy, root, 50, 50, 50, 50, 0, 0, 0);
XMapWindow(dpy, ww);
}
for(;;) {
XEvent e;
XNextEvent(dpy, &e);
}
}
It may be faced when running some tests which are trying to map a lot of windows, e.g. one for every GraphicsConfiguration.
If you have 210 GraphicsConfigurations per display on Xwayland, then running such test in 2 display configuration will lead to crash.
Solution: None (yet), but known upstream at xorg/xserver/-/issues/1222.
X11 compatibility: Robot.mouseMove does not visually move mouse cursor
Problem:
Javadoc for java.awt.Robot#mouseMove says:
/**
* Moves mouse pointer to given screen coordinates.
* @param x X position
* @param y Y position
*/
public synchronized void mouseMove(int x, int y) {
Despite the fact that this mouse movement is successfully emulated within the XWayland server(following mouse press emulation will be in a right place), the mouse cursor does not visually move.
With current specification of java.awt.Robot#mouseMove it may be a conformance issue.
Solution: None (yet)
X11 compatibility: Drag and Drop java → Wayland does not work
Drag and drop from java to wayland apps does not work with current JDK implementation.
Solution: Might be solved by updating to the latest versions of Mutter, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2124
Showing a splash screen
Problem: splash screens displays somewhere in top left
Discussion:
This is due to Wayland not allowing windows to position themselves.
This will need a Wayland protocol extension to add a role for an output-only, centered surface.
it'd just need a fallback implementation for compositors that doesn't support it, e.g. a dialog
Add input to this existing issue : https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/issues/67
Implementation will probably be similar to this MR for Picture-In-Picture video: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/132
Solution: None yet (see discussion)
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