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Damian Hobson-Garcia d564823cfd server: stop wl_display event loop from any context
Calling wl_display_terminate() will exit the wl_display event loop
at the start of the next loop iteration.  This works fine when
wl_display_terminate() is called after the event loop wakes up
from polling on the added event sources.  If, however, it is
called before polling starts, the event loop will not exit until
one or more event sources trigger.  Depending on the types of event
sources, they may never trigger (or may not trigger for a long time),
so the event loop may never exit.

Add an extra event source to the wl_display event loop that will trigger
whenever wl_display_terminate() is called, so that the event loop will
always exit.

Fixes #201

Signed-off-by: Damian Hobson-Garcia <dhobsong@igel.co.jp>
2021-10-09 13:09:04 +00:00
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What is Wayland?

Wayland is a project to define a protocol for a compositor to talk to
its clients as well as a library implementation of the protocol.  The
compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel
modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland
client itself.  The clients can be traditional applications, X servers
(rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.

The wayland protocol is essentially only about input handling and
buffer management.  The compositor receives input events and forwards
them to the relevant client.  The clients creates buffers and renders
into them and notifies the compositor when it needs to redraw.  The
protocol also handles drag and drop, selections, window management and
other interactions that must go through the compositor.  However, the
protocol does not handle rendering, which is one of the features that
makes wayland so simple.  All clients are expected to handle rendering
themselves, typically through cairo or OpenGL.

The weston compositor is a reference implementation of a wayland
compositor and the weston repository also includes a few example
clients.

Building the wayland libraries is fairly simple, aside from libffi,
they don't have many dependencies:

    $ git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland
    $ cd wayland
    $ meson build/ --prefix=PREFIX
    $ ninja -C build/ install

where PREFIX is where you want to install the libraries.  See
https://wayland.freedesktop.org for more complete build instructions
for wayland, weston, xwayland and various toolkits.