Crate wayland_window

Wayland Window, a minimalistic decoration-drawing library for wayland applications.

This crate is only usable in conjuction of the wayland-client crate.

Creating a decorated shell surface

Creating a decorated window is as simple as wrapping it in a DecoratedSurface:

use wayland_window::DecoratedSurface;
let decorated = DecoratedSurface::new(my_surface, width, height, &compositor, &subcompositor, &shm, &shell, Some(seat));

As you can see, you need to pass several references to global objects as well as a WlSeat. It is required for the library to be able to create the surfaces to draw the borders, react to user input in the borders, for resizeing and move. It will use the events provided on the seat you passed as argument. (So if you are on a setup with more than one pointer, only the one associated with this seat will be able to resize the window).

Processing the events

The DecoratedSurface object will not resize your window itself, as it cannot do it.

When the user clicks on a border and starts a resize, the server will start to generate a number of configure events on the shell surface. You'll need to process the events generated by the surface to handle them, as the surface is also an event iterator :

for (time, x, y) in &mut decorated_surface {
    // handle the event
}

The wayland server can (and will) generate a ton of configure events during a single WlDisplay::dispatch() if the user is currently resizing the window. You are only required to process the last one, and if you try to handle them all your aplication will be very laggy.

The proper way is to prcess the iterator and only store them in a container, overwriting the the previous one each time, and manually checking if one has been received in the main loop of your program, like this:

let mut newsize = None;
for (_, x, y) in &mut decorated_surface {
    newsize = Some((x, y))
}
if let Some((x, y)) = newsize {
    let (x, y) = substract_borders(x, y);
    window.resize(x, y);
}

Resizing the surface

When resizing your main surface, you need to tell the DecoratedSurface that it must update its dimensions. This is very simple:

/* update the borders size */
surface.attach(Some(&new_buffer));
decorated_surface.resize(width, height);
surface.commit();

If you do this as a response of a configure event, note the following points:

• You do not have to respect the exact sizes provided by the compositor, it is just a hint. You can even ignore it if you don't want the window to be resized.
• In case you chose to ignore the resize, it can be appropiate to still resize your window to its current size (update the buffer to the compositor), as the compositer might have resized your window without telling you.
• The size hint provided by the compositor counts the borders size, to get the real size hint for your interior surface, use the function substract_borders(..) provided by this library.

Structs

DecoratedSurface

A wrapper for a decorated surface.

Traits

Handler

Functions

add_borders	Adds the border dimensions to the given dimensions.
substract_borders	Substracts the border dimensions from the given dimensions.