NvFBC is unable to capture certain applications that bypasses the DWM
compositor, for example, Firefox playing video in full screen. This
has been a known issue for a long time with Nvidia's ShadowPlay, see:
* https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-experience/14/233709/
* https://crbug.com/609857
Nvidia won't fix this, but there are workarounds. For example, we
create a transparent 1x1 layered window, which forces desktop composition
to be enabled.
Note that SetLayeredWindowAttributes also supports alpha-based transparency,
but setting transparency to 0 will cause DWM to skip composition. We could
use a transparency of 1, but this ruins the image by the slightest bit,
which is unacceptable. Therefore, we must use chroma key-based
transparency, which tricks DWM into compositing despite being fully
transparent.
Basically, this creates a separate thread for the mouse events, and this
thread detects that the desktop has changed (say to the secure desktop),
and unhooks, switches to the new desktop, and then rehooks.
This allows the cursor location to be updated while using NvFBC on secure
desktop and the login screen.
WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId will return a session even if it's not logged in,
unlike our old GetInteractiveSessionID function. Launching looking glass on
such a console session will allow the login screen to be captured.
Note that WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId() will return 0xFFFFFFFF if there are
no sessions attached.
To quote MSDN documentation:
> The lpApplicationName parameter can be NULL, in which case the executable
> name must be the first white space–delimited string in lpCommandLine. If
> the executable or path name has a space in it, there is a risk that a
> different executable could be run because of the way the function parses
> spaces. The following example is dangerous because the function will
> attempt to run "Program.exe", if it exists, instead of "MyApp.exe".
>
> LPTSTR szCmdline[] = _tcsdup(TEXT("C:\\Program Files\\MyApp"));
> CreateProcessAsUser(hToken, NULL, szCmdline, /*...*/ );
>
> If a malicious user were to create an application called "Program.exe" on
> a system, any program that incorrectly calls CreateProcessAsUser using the
> Program Files directory will run this application instead of the intended
> application.
>
> To avoid this problem, do not pass NULL for lpApplicationName.
So instead, we pass the executable to lpApplicationName instead, which avoids
the issue. MSDN says:
> The lpCommandLine parameter can be NULL. In that case, the function uses
> the string pointed to by lpApplicationName as the command line.
This also avoids the strdup since lpApplicationName is LPCSTR unlike
lpCommandLine which is LPSTR.
It shouldn't have any effect, since the host application is created with
the token, and there is no need for the service itself to impersonate.
In practice, removal doesn't appear to have any effect on the ability to
capture privileged things like secure desktop.
Use the process handle returned by CreateProcessAsUserA to wait on the
process. This results in faster response times and less polling.
For example, it now restarts instantly when UAC is activated.
This also removes the call to OpenProcess and rendering the mutex unnecessary.
As a bonus, it should fix#298.
The host process will be changed to return these codes, from which the
service process could decide whether to exit or restart the process and log.
Note that on Windows, return values are 32-bit unlike POSIX which is only 8.
This makes it a compile-time error to call a function that semantically
takes no parameters with a nonzero number of arguments.
Previously, such code would still compile, but risk blowing up the stack
if a compiler chose to use something other than caller-cleanup calling
conventions.
There is no need to allocate a buffer for each message as the client is
only required to show the latest version of the cursor. Whie the logic
should prevent cursor corruption, it's not guaranteed, however this is
not a problem as this can only happen if the client is lagging behind
and as such when it gets another update message it will re-read the
now new shape anyway.
This commit bumps the KVMFR protocol version as it adds additional
hotspot x & y fields to the KVMFRCursor struct. This corrects the issue
of invalid alignment of the local mouse when the shape has an offset
such as the 'I' beam.
Now that it's recommended to run LG as the `SYSTEM` user, launching an
application to read the log file is dangerous as it will be launched
with the same access rights (`SYSTEM`). Instead so as Microsoft
recommends and only present a message box with the information.
Experimental, use at your own peril!
This commit adds the ability for the LG host to install and launch with
Windows as a system service.
To install simply run `looking-glass-host.exe InstallService` or
conversely to uninstall `looking-glass-host.exe UninstallService`.
SafeRelease was really useless, derefencing the smart pointers through
the use of & releases the value before SafeRelease get's to it. Instead
either allow the destructor to handle it's release, or explicityly
release it by assigning NULL
Contrary to the MS documentation, benchmarking shows a substantial
increase in performance when releasing the captured frame as soon
as possible. This change makes it possible to achieve 60FPS at 4K
resolutions.
Pass -DUNICODE as a CFLAG. The visual studio project asks for
a unicode (wide-string) build, but the unix makefile did not.
This fixes the build on msys2.
* [host] rename min() to LG_MIN()
* [host] format string type fixes, %Ix doesn't exist in mingw
* [host] DXGI minor fixes
* [host] mingw lacks media foundation api headers and QISearch
