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.
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
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>
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>
Instead of computing the workarea whenever some Lua code asks for it, it is now
remembered explicitly as a property on a screen. This allows us to only emit
property::workarea if the workarea actually changed.
Fixes: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/756
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
A client cannot be used any more after it was unmanaged. Similarly, Lua
shouldn't be allowed to e.g. assign a client to a screen that was removed. This
commit adds such a checker which "breaks" all screens which are not in the
global screen list.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
This commit adds a "removed" signal to screens. Together with the "added" signal
that we have since a while, this allows the C code to update the list of
available screens dynamically without needing to restart.
So far, this code received only minimal testing. So far, I don't have a nice
idea on how to easily test this...
Closes: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/672
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Right now this just always returns the first screens, but this can easily be
implemented properly later.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Even when a screen is just an integer, the code becomes a bit more
self-documenting. Even better, if we start to handle screen objects to Lua
instead of screen indicies, there will only be one place that needs to be
changed.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Every .c file has to include the corresponding .h file first to make sure the
headers are self-contained. Additionally, this moves some unneeded includes
around.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
This makes the screen objects use our existing infrastructure for implementing
classes and objects with lua instead of hand-rolling an own version.
This results in some small API change: Screen objects no longer have an
add_signal() function and instead this function exists on the parent screen
class.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
