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Pekka Paalanen
ba9f9a446f doc: add a section on color management
I think the docbook deserves an introduction to how color management is
designed in Wayland, aimed at people who are familiar with pixels but
new to the topic.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>
2025-06-12 14:37:32 +03:00
Manuel Stoeckl
4a0c4e2119 doc: Further explain typical display socket lookup
This change mentions the case where WAYLAND_SOCKET is used, which helps
people avoid just testing 'getenv(WAYLAND_DISPLAY)' to see if a
Wayland compositor is available;

Signed-off-by: Manuel Stoeckl <code@mstoeckl.com>
2025-06-08 16:20:35 +00:00
Tobias Stoeckmann
cc06c3825f Fix typos
Typos found with codespell and during code audit.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@stoeckmann.org>
2025-05-20 20:49:32 +00:00
Demi Marie Obenour
6c4a695045 connection: Reject strings containing NUL bytes
libwayland cannot construct these messages as it uses strlen() to
determine string lengths.  libwayland is also guaranteed to misinterpret
these messages, since message handlers only get a pointer and no length.
Therefore, reject strings containing NUL bytes.

Also remove a redundant check from the unmarshalling code.  The
zero-length case has already been checked for.

Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>
2024-08-18 17:08:56 +00:00
Sebastian Wick
2bbd80c8df doc: Require strings to be UTF-8
Nothing checks this yet but this gives us the opportunity to do so when
we want.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Wick <sebastian.wick@redhat.com>
2024-08-09 20:33:05 +00:00
Mikhail Gusarov
88ece8a44d doc: Improve wording for packed IDs
"is incompatible with the implementation in libwayland" is a common
source of confusion as evidenced by repeated discussions in IRC
channel.

Improve the wording by making clear that
- packing IDs is a protocol requirement
- there are implementations (including libwayland) that enforce it

Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net>
2024-01-22 12:37:26 +00:00
Ian Douglas Scott
60827b862e Document which type are nullable, and wire format for null value
Signed-off-by: Ian Douglas Scott <idscott@system76.com>
2022-07-14 08:38:49 -07:00
Mikhail Gusarov
eca836add5 doc: Clarify that null terminator is included in string length
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net>
2021-12-18 15:01:21 +01:00
Mikhail Gusarov
971a0a8b84 doc: Clarify position of file descriptors in the stream
The specification left the position and order of file
descriptors unspecified. Specify that

- order of file descriptors is maintained
- position of file descriptors is bounded, but loose

Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net>
2021-12-12 15:09:00 +01:00
Maxime Roussin-Bélanger
0f5cc8b71b doc: fix typos 2020-12-17 16:03:14 -05:00
Yann Dirson
ef611a803e doc: fix and clarify pointer image behaviour
Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@free.fr>
2020-06-03 12:49:43 +00:00
Peter Hutterer
df969706f4 Replace initial 8 spaces with a tab for all xml files
This is the style used in wayland.xml which is the only file we really
care about for git blame information. So let's adjust all others to that
style for consistency and fix editorconfig to avoid messing this up in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2020-04-29 12:21:33 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
60acba6e0f
Add Meson build
Meson is a next generation build system, simpler than Autotools and also faster
and more portable. Most importantly, it will make integrating ASan easier in
CI.

The goal is to maintain feature parity of the Meson build with the
Autotools build, until such time when we can drop the latter.

Add a script which generates the desired Doxygen configuration for our various
output formats and executes it using that configuration. This is not something
Meson can or should do.

Fixes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/issues/80

[daniels: Changed to bump version, use GitLab issues URL, remove header
          checks not used in any code, remove pre-pkg-config Expat
	  support, added missing include paths to wayland-egl and
	  cpp-compile-test, added GitLab CI.
	  Bumped version, removed unnecessary pkg-config paths.]

[daniels: Properly install into mandir/man3 via some gross
          paramaterisation, generate real stamp files.]

Pekka:
- squashed patches
- removed MAKEFLAGS from meson CI
- remove unused PACKAGE* defines
- fix up scanner dependency handling
- instead of host_scanner option, build wayland-scanner twice when cross-compiling
- changed .pc files to match more closely the autotools versions
- reorder doxygen man sources to reduce diff to autotools
- fix pkgconfig.generate syntax warnings (new in Meson)
- bump meson version to 0.47 for configure_file(copy) and run_command(check)
- move doc tool checks into doc/meson.build, needed in more places
- make all doc tools mandatory if building docs
- check dot and doxygen versions
- add build files under doc/publican
- reindent to match Weston Meson style

Simon:
- Remove install arg from configure_file
- Don't build wayland-scanner twice during cross-build
- Fix naming of the threads dependency
- Store tests in dict
- Add missing HAVE_* decls for functions
- Remove unused cc_native variable
- Make doxygen targets a dict
- Make dot_gv a dict
- Use dicts in man_pages
- Make decls use dicts
- Make generated_headers use dicts
- Align Meson version number with autotool's

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
2020-01-10 23:44:38 +01:00
asynts
b5bd24476d doc: Expand the abbreviation "hw" to "hardware".
Out of the context it is reasonably clear that "hw" is indeed an abbreviation
for "hardware".

The use of "hw" in this place doesn't seem to be a stylistic choice, but rather
an oversight.

Signed-off-by: Paul Scharnofske <asynts@gmail.com>
2020-01-04 14:40:09 +01:00
Drew DeVault
a2f1343b7e Document unusual wl_registry.bind new_id behavior
When wayland-scanner encounters a new_id field with no corresponding
interface name defined, instead of emitting a function whose signature
lines up with the usual case (a uint32_t ID), it adds the interface name
as a string and the version number so that the interface can be
identified from the protcol message.

Without docs, this was previously left for the interprid wire protocol
implementor (e.g. me an hour ago) to discover when Wayland clients send
them apparently bogus messages.

I would have preferred if a different primitive type were used here
(e.g. typed_new_id) to reflect the fact that the wire protocol is
different, but I felt it unwise to add a new primitive to wayland.xml in
$current_year.
2019-07-30 07:32:29 -04:00
Simon Ser
a9ff9cc7d5 doc: update IANA MIME types registry URL
Use a more official one, served over HTTP rather than FTP.

Reviewed-by: Matheus Santana <embs@cin.ufpe.br>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
2018-06-28 14:13:13 +03:00
Pekka Paalanen
147617800d doc: start documenting Xwayland
This is a rough intro to what Xwayland is and does, with just one
implementation detail so far (Window identification).

I paid no attention to formatting details, those can be polished in
follow-ups. I just want the prose out.

I also just quickly whacked up the diagram, would be happy to see
someone replace it with a nicer one. I just didn't have time to learn
dot for now.

v2:
- typo fix
- rephrase "talking to hardware" as "driving the displays"
- mention circular dependency in intro
- add section to explain rootless and rootful modes
- remove paragraph about Xwayland protocol usage
- move TBD part to the end under a new section header

v3:
- use "advantage" and "disadvantage" instead of "pro" and "con"
- slight rewording on rootful mode and rootless mode paragraphs
- removed the paragraph about the lack of shell and special Wayland
  protocol extensions
- removed the commented out list of ideas to write

v4:
- typo fixes pointed out by Yong

Cc: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
2017-12-18 12:05:03 +02:00
Matt Hoosier
1b6521e695 client: Allow absolute paths in WAYLAND_DISPLAY
In order to support system compositor instances, it is necessary to
allow clients' wl_display_connect() to find the compositor's listening
socket somewhere outside of XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. For a full account, see
the discussion beginning here:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-November/035664.html

This change adjusts the client-side connection logic so that, if
WAYLAND_DISPLAY is formatted as an absolute pathname, the socket
connection attempt is made to just $WAYLAND_DISPLAY rather than
usual user-private location $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/$WAYLAND_DISPLAY.

This change is based on Davide Bettio's submission of the same concept
at:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-August/023838.html.

v4 changes:

* Improved internal comments and some boundary-condition
  error checks in test case.
* Refer to compositor as "Wayland server" rather than "Wayland
  display" in wl_display_connect() doxygen comments.
* Remove redundant descriptions of parameter-interpretation
  mechanics from wl_display_connect() manpage. Reworked things
  to make it clear that 'name' and $WAYLAND_DISLAY are each
  capable of encoding absolute server socket paths.
* Remove callout to reference implementation behavior in protocol
  documented. In its place there is now a simple statement that
  implementations can optionally support absolute socket paths.

v3 changes:

* Added test case.
* Clarified documentation to note that 'name' parameter to wl_display_connect()
  can also be an absolute path.

v2 changes:

* Added backward incompatibility note to wl_display_connect() manpage.
* Rephased wl_display_connect() manpage changes to precisely match actual
  changed behavior.
* Added mention of new absolute path behavior in wl_display_connect()
  doxygen comments.
* Mentioned new absolute path interpretation of WAYLAND_DISPLAY in
  protocol documentation.

Signed-off-by: Matt Hoosier <matt.hoosier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
2017-12-11 10:03:59 +02:00
Moritz Kiefer
06b7c471b7 doc: Fix a typo in the client documentation
Signed-off-by: Moritz Kiefer <moritz.kiefer@purelyfunctional.org>
Reviewed-by: Yong Bakos <ybakos@humanoriented.com>
2016-11-16 16:39:44 +00:00
Yong Bakos
d9ef882139 doc: Correct docbook title
The docbook title was "The Wayland display server," which is inaccurate.

Change the title to "The Wayland Protocol".

Signed-off-by: Yong Bakos <ybakos@humanoriented.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
2016-09-05 13:55:29 +03:00
Eric Engestrom
3c1aafd2a9 doc: fix typos
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Reviewed-by: Armin Krezović <krezovic.armin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
2016-05-02 17:46:32 -07:00
Yong Bakos
3178200f0d doc: Hyphenate compound adjectives window-local, surface-local
See https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2016-April/028249.html.

Signed-off-by: Yong Bakos <ybakos@humanoriented.com>
Reviewed-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
2016-04-29 16:38:01 -07:00
Auke Booij
999225c17a doc: document the enum and bitfield attributes
Introduce the enum and bitfield attributes, which allow you to refer to the enum
you are expecting in an argument, and specify which enums are to be thought of
as bitfields.

Changes since v3:
 - Fix typo ("description" -> "descriptive")

Signed-off-by: Auke Booij <auke@tulcod.com>
Reviewed-by: Nils Chr. Brause <nilschrbrause@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
2015-11-04 14:50:26 -08:00
Pekka Paalanen
c7dbaa1cfd Revert "client: require WAYLAND_DISPLAY to be set"
This reverts commit fb7e130217.

Developers have been trying to reduce the number of by default required
environment variables, and the mentioned commit is a step backwards in
that sense. The fundamental assumption is that a user has only one main
(Wayland) display server where all programs should connect to by
default, and do so with an a priori known socket name.

The commit also broke various use cases in the wild, some accidentally
due to other causes, some intentionally. This revert allows those use
cases to continue.

The original problem of running Weston in a window in an existing GNOME
X11 session and getting applications unintentionally launched into
Weston can be circumvented by letting Weston use a non-default socket
name, leaving wayland-0 unused.

Discussion:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-August/023927.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-August/023937.html

Cc: Dima Ryazanov <dima@gmail.com>
Cc: Giulio Camuffo <giuliocamuffo@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
Cc: Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre@mecheye.net>
Cc: Ryo Munakata <ryomnktml@gmail.com>
Cc: Ray Strode <halfline@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Cc: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Cc: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Acked-by: Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dima Ryazanov <dima@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-By: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk>
Acked-By: Ryo Munakata <ryomnktml@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2015-08-24 12:55:24 +03:00
Dima Ryazanov
fb7e130217 client: require WAYLAND_DISPLAY to be set
Although defaulting to wayland-0 seems convenient, it has an undesirable
side effect: clients may unintentionally connect to the wrong compositor.
Generally, it's safer to fail instead. Here's a real example:

In Fedora 22, Gtk+ prefers Wayland over X11, though the default session is still
a normal X11 Gnome session. When you launch a Gtk+ app, it will try Wayland,
fail, then try X11, and succesfully start up. That works fine.

Now suppose you launch Weston while running the Gnome session. Suddenly, all
of the Gtk+ apps launched from Gnome will show up inside Weston instead.
That's unexpected. There's also no good way to prevent that from happening
(other than perhaps setting WAYLAND_DISPLAY to an invalid value when launching
an app).

Not using wayland-0 as the default will solve that problem: an app launched
from the X11 Gnome session will use the X11 backend regardless of whether
there's a wayland compositor running at the same time.

Everything else should work as before. The compositor already sets
the WAYLAND_DISPLAY when starting the session, so the lack of the default value
should not make a difference to the user.

Signed-off-by: Dima Ryazanov <dima@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Giulio Camuffo <giuliocamuffo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
Acked-by: Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre@mecheye.net>
Reviewed-by: Ryo Munakata <ryomnktml@gmail.com>

[Pekka: dropped the wayland-server.c hunk, adjusted summary]

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
2015-08-14 10:14:05 +03:00
Bryce Harrington
40925634e6 publican: Update docs license from MIT "X11" to MIT "Expat" style
Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
2015-06-22 14:50:10 +03:00
Bryce Harrington
439b0a3863 Spelling fixes (cosmetic)
A few typos in comments and protocol docs, no code changes.

./src/wayland-util.h:281: recieved  ==> received
./src/wayland-client.c:115: occured  ==> occurred
./src/wayland-client.c:156: occured  ==> occurred
./tests/test-compositor.c:76: parallely  ==> parallelly
./tests/test-compositor.c:474: recieve  ==> receive
./protocol/wayland.xml:1767: layed  ==> laid
./protocol/wayland.xml:2112: dependant  ==> dependent
./doc/publican/sources/Client.xml:25: recieved  ==> received

Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Bill Spitzak <spitzak@gmail.com>
2015-03-19 16:56:17 +02:00
Bryce Harrington
310fea467c doc: Fill in high level description for Surfaces
Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon A. Cruz <jonc@osg.samsung.com>
2015-02-04 21:49:30 -08:00
Bill Spitzak
6be2d9aaef doc: Intro text for doxygen output in it's own file
(This patch has been modified to apply atop current master)

This makes it considerably easier to edit the text and make it different
for each library.

To address previous concerns with this patch, I wrote some more complete
introductory text. This is based on my understanding of these libraries, which
may not be correct, and is pretty rudimentary for libwayland-server!

However this intro text demonstrates how to create links to the
doxygen-generated text. It looks like you cannot link to methods easily as the
link name contains a hash number, but links to objects and classes work.
Reviewed-by: Jon A. Cruz <jonc@osg.samsung.com>
Tested-by: Jon A. Cruz <jonc@osg.samsung.com>
2015-01-29 17:13:01 -08:00
Jon Cruz
8cf9a367c9 doc: Create hot-linked areas in documents.
Added xslt processing to give DocBook output diagram image maps/hot-linked
areas consistent with those automatically generated by Doxygen.

Signed-off-by: Jon A. Cruz <jonc@osg.samsung.com>
2015-01-28 17:43:18 -08:00
Jon Cruz
b5fca036cc doc: Switch from static image files to generated diagrams.
Switches diagrams from using static PNG images to instead generate them via
simple graphviz DOT markup files.

Signed-off-by: Jon A. Cruz <jonc@osg.samsung.com>
2015-01-28 17:43:16 -08:00
Bill Spitzak
4abe5edf46 doc: removed the word "interface" from the link names
Just to make it slightly shorter.

Also add a dash to the doxygen links to make them look a bit more alike.

Tested-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
2014-12-19 16:15:29 +02:00
Bill Spitzak
6e3ad249ad doc: Make it easier to add a new doxygen page
The repetitive parts of generating the server and client documentation are
merged, so it is easier to add another doxygen chapter: add a new line to
$publican_sources in publican/Makefile.am, and a list of C source files to
doxygen/Makefile.am.

Reviewed-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
2014-12-18 15:13:39 +02:00
Bill Spitzak
c985a17988 doc: Split libwayland-client and -server into different pages
This was suggested before to make it clearer that things like wl_display
are different objects in each of them. I made these into two appendixes
because the protocol spec was already an appendix.

Reviewed-by: Bryce Harrington <b.harrington@samsung.com>
[Bryce requested minor changes, not yet here.]

Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
2014-12-16 17:07:25 +02:00
Peter Hutterer
f3e7eedf1c doc: replace publican with xmlto
Publican isn't packaged for some distros, xmlto is a lot more common. Most of
what publican provides for us is the stylesheet anyway, so we can just use
xmlto and the publican stylesheet to get roughly the same look.

PDF and XML generation has been dropped, this needs a bit more more effort
than a mere switchover to xmlto.

The top-level directory structure imposed by publican is kept for now
(specifically the Wayland/en-US/html tree). This makes it easier to transition over
for packagers. Note that the list of files inside has changed.

CSS files are taken from publican to keep a uniform look compared to previous
documentations. Stylesheets are licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal license, see
publican/LICENSE:

1.  Files in the datadir/Common_Content directory and its subdirectories are
    licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal license.

    To the extent possible under law, the developers of Publican waive all
    copyright and related or neighboring rights to the files contained
    in the datadir/Common_Content directory and its subdirectories.

Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
2014-09-22 10:30:41 +03:00
Jason Ekstrand
6b8eef962f doc: Add a section on interface and protocol object versioning
There have been a lot of questions asked lately about versioning of
interfaces and protocol objects.  This addition to the documentation should
clear up some of those questions.

Signed-off-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
2013-08-19 16:23:08 -07:00
Jason Ekstrand
52de023482 doc: Update the ID alocation section
The method described of alocation IDs has been wrong at least since version
1.0.  This commit updates it to correspond to the way IDs are chosen in
versions >= 1.0.

Signed-off-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
2013-08-19 16:23:02 -07:00
Bryce W. Harrington
eda474c779 publican: Fix grammar several places in Protocol docs
Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <b.harrington@samsung.com>
2013-08-08 21:39:25 -07:00
Bryce W. Harrington
9fc867060f publican: Drop unneeded 'of'
Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <b.harrington@samsung.com>
2013-08-08 21:38:28 -07:00
Bryce W. Harrington
c7d2c0b423 publican: Cleanup Preface's grammar.
Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <b.harrington@samsung.com>
2013-08-08 21:38:14 -07:00
Peng Wu
5144cf6206 protocol: Fix documentation typo 2013-05-22 15:49:13 -04:00
Peter Hutterer
3ddedc053f doc: Improve "Library" and "Compositors" chapter
Originally written Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti@intel.com>

Some modifications to adjust for previously merged conflicting patches and link
to the sections (instead of <emphasis>).

Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2013-04-04 16:57:44 -04:00
Peter Hutterer
b1d7131c36 doc: generate server documentation from XML too
Same as WaylandClientAPI.xml we now also generate WaylandServerAPI.xml for
publication. Most of this hunk is just adding a client/ or server/ into the
xml path to keep the two separate.

The change in wayland.doxygen now causes a standard doxygen call to not
generate anything - what is generated is specified through the options
passed by make.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2013-04-04 16:57:18 -04:00
Tiago Vignatti
5e014c81cc doc: Capitalize all Wayland occurrences
Signed-off-by: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>

[re-run of search/replace after rebasing]

Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2013-04-04 16:57:07 -04:00
Kristian Høgsberg
477dcd84c7 docs: Use MIT for documentation license 2013-04-03 16:26:14 -04:00
Peter Hutterer
9d296fc73a doc: rename "Wayland" to "publican"
This directory was called Wayland during my early tries with publican where
the source layout was different and it needed to be set to the same name as
the publican output directory. This reason doesn't exist anymore, so re-name
it to publican to make it more obvious what's hiding in here.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2013-04-03 15:44:50 -04:00