One of the major issues with the old tracking code is a data race
between the cursor thread updating g_cursor.guest and the
app_handleMouseBasic function. Specifically, the latter may have
sent mouse input via spice that has not been processed by the guest
and updated g_cursor.guest, but the guest may overwrite g_cursor.guest
to a previous state before the input is processed. This causes some
movements to be doubled. Eventually, the cursor positions will
synchronize, but this nevertheless causes a lot of jitter.
In this commit, we introduce a new field g_cursor.projected, which
is unambiguously the position of the cursor after taking into account
all the input already sent via spice. This is synced up to the guest
cursor upon entering the window and when the host restarts. Afterwards,
all mouse movements will be based on this position. This eliminates
all cursor jitter as far as I could tell.
Also, the cursor is now synced to the host position when exiting
capture mode.
A downside of this commit is that if the 1:1 movement patch is not
correctly applied, the cursor position would be wildly off instead
of simply jittering, but that is an unsupported configuration and
should not matter.
Also unsupported is when an application in guest moves the cursor
programmatically and bypassing spice. When using those applications,
capture mode must be on. Before this commit, we try to move the guest
cursor back to where it should be, but it's inherently fragile and
may lead to scenarios such as wild movements in first-person shooters.
When input:grabKeyboardOnFocus=no, exiting capture mode should ungrab
the keyboard. Otherwise, focusing the window doesn't grab the keyboard,
but toggling capture mode would leave the keyboard stuck in a grabbed
state until defocused.
While a compositor will never send us 0-delta motion events, they can
still end up as 0-deltas post-projection, consuming QEMU buffer space
for no reason.
This should help with mouse skipping issues.
If the renderer fails to start it sets the run state to stopped, having
lgInit where it was causes this to be reset to running triggering
invalid usage of g_state.lgmp.
Under some circumstances, Looking Glass can hang when SIGINT'd, for
instance, if it's stuck waiting on spice I/O that won't complete because
the guest is misbehaving.
This commit provides an escape hatch for such cases, so one doesn't have
to reach for `kill -9 $(pidof looking-glass-client)`.
It does not make sense to accumulate fractional error in non-capture mode
as you know exactly where the cursor is supposed to be, at least on Wayland.
On Wayland, we base movements on the current guest position and desired
target position, and the accumulated errors only skew our movements.
Build failed with _FORTIFY_SOURCE enabled because the compiler couldn't
ensure the switch statements didn't hit the default arm and thus wouldn't
define the variables. Adding a statically failing assert makes sure that
all code paths either define the variables or fail early.
$ cd client
$ env CFLAGS='-O1 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1' cmake -B build/
$ make -C build
[...]
client/renderers/EGL/egl.c: In function ‘egl_calc_mouse_size’:
client/renderers/EGL/egl.c:299:36: error: ‘h’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
299 | (this->mouseHeight * (1.0f / h)) * this->scaleY
| ~~~~~~^~~~
