Public Member Functions¶

struct wl_client * wl_client_create (struct wl_display *display, int fd)
struct wl_display * wl_display_create (void)
void wl_display_destroy (struct wl_display *display)
void wl_display_set_global_filter (struct wl_display *display, wl_display_global_filter_func_t filter, void *data)
uint32_t wl_display_get_serial (struct wl_display *display)
uint32_t wl_display_next_serial (struct wl_display *display)
void wl_display_destroy_clients (struct wl_display *display)
void wl_display_set_default_max_buffer_size (struct wl_display *display, size_t max_buffer_size)
int wl_display_add_socket_fd (struct wl_display *display, int sock_fd)
int wl_display_add_socket (struct wl_display *display, const char *name)
struct wl_protocol_logger * wl_display_add_protocol_logger (struct wl_display *display, wl_protocol_logger_func_t func, void *user_data)
uint32_t * wl_display_add_shm_format (struct wl_display *display, uint32_t format)
struct wl_list * wl_display_get_client_list (struct wl_display *display)
struct wl_event_queue * wl_display_create_queue (struct wl_display *display)
struct wl_event_queue * wl_display_create_queue_with_name (struct wl_display *display, const char *name)
struct wl_display * wl_display_connect_to_fd (int fd)
struct wl_display * wl_display_connect (const char *name)
void wl_display_disconnect (struct wl_display *display)
int wl_display_get_fd (struct wl_display *display)
int wl_display_roundtrip_queue (struct wl_display *display, struct wl_event_queue *queue)
int wl_display_roundtrip (struct wl_display *display)
int wl_display_read_events (struct wl_display *display)
int wl_display_prepare_read_queue (struct wl_display *display, struct wl_event_queue *queue)
int wl_display_prepare_read (struct wl_display *display)
void wl_display_cancel_read (struct wl_display *display)
int wl_display_dispatch_queue (struct wl_display *display, struct wl_event_queue *queue)
int wl_display_dispatch_queue_pending (struct wl_display *display, struct wl_event_queue *queue)
int wl_display_dispatch (struct wl_display *display)
int wl_display_dispatch_pending (struct wl_display *display)
int wl_display_get_error (struct wl_display *display)
uint32_t wl_display_get_protocol_error (struct wl_display *display, const struct wl_interface **interface, uint32_t *id)
int wl_display_flush (struct wl_display *display)
void wl_display_set_max_buffer_size (struct wl_display *display, size_t max_buffer_size)

Data Fields¶

struct wl_event_loop * loop
bool run
uint32_t next_global_name
uint32_t serial
struct wl_list registry_resource_list
struct wl_list global_list
struct wl_list socket_list
struct wl_list client_list
struct wl_list protocol_loggers
struct wl_priv_signal destroy_signal
struct wl_priv_signal create_client_signal
struct wl_array additional_shm_formats
wl_display_global_filter_func_t global_filter
void * global_filter_data
int terminate_efd
struct wl_event_source * term_source
size_t max_buffer_size

struct wl_client * wl_client_create (struct wl_display * display, int fd)¶

Create a client for the given file descriptor

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Returns

Given a file descriptor corresponding to one end of a socket, this function will create a wl_client struct and add the new client to the compositors client list. At that point, the client is initialized and ready to run, as if the client had connected to the servers listening socket. When the client eventually sends requests to the compositor, the wl_client argument to the request handler will be the wl_client returned from this function.

The other end of the socket can be passed to wl_display_connect_to_fd() on the client side or used with the WAYLAND_SOCKET environment variable on the client side.

Listeners added with wl_display_add_client_created_listener() will be notified by this function after the client is fully constructed.

On failure this function sets errno accordingly and returns NULL.

On success, the new client object takes the ownership of the file descriptor. On failure, the ownership of the socket endpoint file descriptor is unchanged, it is the responsibility of the caller to perform cleanup, e.g. call close().

struct wl_protocol_logger * wl_display_add_protocol_logger (struct wl_display * display, wl_protocol_logger_func_t func, void * user_data)¶

Adds a new protocol logger.

When a new protocol message arrives or is sent from the server all the protocol logger functions will be called, carrying the user_data pointer, the type of the message (request or event) and the actual message. The lifetime of the messages passed to the logger function ends when they return so the messages cannot be stored and accessed later.

errno is set on error.

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uint32_t * wl_display_add_shm_format (struct wl_display * display, uint32_t format)¶

Add support for a wl_shm pixel format

Parameters

Returns

Add the specified wl_shm format to the list of formats the wl_shm object advertises when a client binds to it. Adding a format to the list means that clients will know that the compositor supports this format and may use it for creating wl_shm buffers. The compositor must be able to handle the pixel format when a client requests it.

The compositor by default supports WL_SHM_FORMAT_ARGB8888 and WL_SHM_FORMAT_XRGB8888.

int wl_display_add_socket (struct wl_display * display, const char * name)¶

Add a socket to Wayland display for the clients to connect.

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Returns

This adds a Unix socket to Wayland display which can be used by clients to connect to Wayland display.

If NULL is passed as name, then it would look for WAYLAND_DISPLAY env variable for the socket name. If WAYLAND_DISPLAY is not set, then default wayland-0 is used.

If the socket name is a relative path, the Unix socket will be created in the directory pointed to by environment variable XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. If XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is invalid or not set, then this function fails and returns -1.

If the socket name is an absolute path, then it is used as-is for the the Unix socket.

The length of the computed socket path must not exceed the maximum length of a Unix socket path. The function also fails if the user does not have write permission in the directory or if the path is already in use.

int wl_display_add_socket_fd (struct wl_display * display, int sock_fd)¶

Add a socket with an existing fd to Wayland display for the clients to connect.

Parameters

Returns

The existing socket fd must already be created, opened, and locked. The fd must be properly set to CLOEXEC and bound to a socket file with both bind() and listen() already called.

On success, the socket fd ownership is transferred to libwayland: libwayland will close the socket when the display is destroyed.

void wl_display_cancel_read (struct wl_display * display)¶

Cancel read intention on display's fd

Parameters

After a thread successfully called wl_display_prepare_read() it must either call wl_display_read_events() or wl_display_cancel_read(). If the threads do not follow this rule it will lead to deadlock.

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struct wl_display * wl_display_connect (const char * name)¶

Connect to a Wayland display

Parameters

Returns

Connect to the Wayland display named name. If name is NULL, its value will be replaced with the WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variable if it is set, otherwise display 'wayland-0' will be used.

If WAYLAND_SOCKET is set, it's interpreted as a file descriptor number referring to an already opened socket. In this case, the socket is used as-is and name is ignored.

If name is a relative path, then the socket is opened relative to the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR directory.

If name is an absolute path, then that path is used as-is for the location of the socket at which the Wayland server is listening; no qualification inside XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is attempted.

If name is NULL and the WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variable is set to an absolute pathname, then that pathname is used as-is for the socket in the same manner as if name held an absolute path. Support for absolute paths in name and WAYLAND_DISPLAY is present since Wayland version 1.15.

struct wl_display * wl_display_connect_to_fd (int fd)¶

Connect to Wayland display on an already open fd

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Returns

The wl_display takes ownership of the fd and will close it when the display is destroyed. The fd will also be closed in case of failure.

struct wl_display * wl_display_create (void)¶

Create Wayland display object.

Returns

This creates the wl_display object.

struct wl_event_queue * wl_display_create_queue (struct wl_display * display)¶

Create a new event queue for this display

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struct wl_event_queue * wl_display_create_queue_with_name (struct wl_display * display, const char * name)¶

Create a new event queue for this display and give it a name

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void wl_display_destroy (struct wl_display * display)¶

Destroy Wayland display object.

Parameters

This function emits the wl_display destroy signal, releases all the sockets added to this display, free's all the globals associated with this display, free's memory of additional shared memory formats and destroy the display object.

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void wl_display_destroy_clients (struct wl_display * display)¶

Destroy all clients connected to the display

Parameters

This function should be called right before wl_display_destroy() to ensure all client resources are closed properly. Destroying a client from within wl_display_destroy_clients() is safe, but creating one will leak resources and raise a warning.

void wl_display_disconnect (struct wl_display * display)¶

Close a connection to a Wayland display

Parameters

Close the connection to display. The wl_proxy and wl_event_queue objects need to be manually destroyed by the caller before disconnecting.

int wl_display_dispatch (struct wl_display * display)¶

Process incoming events

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Returns

Dispatch events on the default event queue.

If the default event queue is empty, this function blocks until there are events to be read from the display fd. Events are read and queued on the appropriate event queues. Finally, events on the default event queue are dispatched. On failure -1 is returned and errno set appropriately.

In a multi threaded environment, do not manually wait using poll() (or equivalent) before calling this function, as doing so might cause a dead lock. If external reliance on poll() (or equivalent) is required, see wl_display_prepare_read_queue() of how to do so.

This function is thread safe as long as it dispatches the right queue on the right thread. It is also compatible with the multi thread event reading preparation API (see wl_display_prepare_read_queue()), and uses the equivalent functionality internally. It is not allowed to call this function while the thread is being prepared for reading events, and doing so will cause a dead lock.

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int wl_display_dispatch_pending (struct wl_display * display)¶

Dispatch default queue events without reading from the display fd

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Returns

This function dispatches events on the main event queue. It does not attempt to read the display fd and simply returns zero if the main queue is empty, i.e., it doesn't block.

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int wl_display_dispatch_queue (struct wl_display * display, struct wl_event_queue * queue)¶

Dispatch events in an event queue

Parameters

Returns

Dispatch events on the given event queue.

If the given event queue is empty, this function blocks until there are events to be read from the display fd. Events are read and queued on the appropriate event queues. Finally, events on given event queue are dispatched. On failure -1 is returned and errno set appropriately.

In a multi threaded environment, do not manually wait using poll() (or equivalent) before calling this function, as doing so might cause a dead lock. If external reliance on poll() (or equivalent) is required, see wl_display_prepare_read_queue() of how to do so.

This function is thread safe as long as it dispatches the right queue on the right thread. It is also compatible with the multi thread event reading preparation API (see wl_display_prepare_read_queue()), and uses the equivalent functionality internally. It is not allowed to call this function while the thread is being prepared for reading events, and doing so will cause a dead lock.

It can be used as a helper function to ease the procedure of reading and dispatching events.

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int wl_display_dispatch_queue_pending (struct wl_display * display, struct wl_event_queue * queue)¶

Dispatch pending events in an event queue

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Returns

Dispatch all incoming events for objects assigned to the given event queue. On failure -1 is returned and errno set appropriately. If there are no events queued, this function returns immediately.

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int wl_display_flush (struct wl_display * display)¶

Send all buffered requests on the display to the server

Parameters

Returns

Send all buffered data on the client side to the server. Clients should always call this function before blocking on input from the display fd. On success, the number of bytes sent to the server is returned. On failure, this function returns -1 and errno is set appropriately.

wl_display_flush() never blocks. It will write as much data as possible, but if all data could not be written, errno will be set to EAGAIN and -1 returned. In that case, use poll on the display file descriptor to wait for it to become writable again.

struct wl_list * wl_display_get_client_list (struct wl_display * display)¶

Get the list of currently connected clients

Parameters

This function returns a pointer to the list of clients currently connected to the display. You can iterate on the list by using the wl_client_for_each macro. The returned value is valid for the lifetime of the display. You must not modify the returned list, but only access it.

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int wl_display_get_error (struct wl_display * display)¶

Retrieve the last error that occurred on a display

Parameters

Returns

Return the last error that occurred on the display. This may be an error sent by the server or caused by the local client.

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int wl_display_get_fd (struct wl_display * display)¶

Get a display context's file descriptor

Parameters

Returns

Return the file descriptor associated with a display so it can be integrated into the client's main loop.

uint32_t wl_display_get_protocol_error (struct wl_display * display, const struct wl_interface ** interface, uint32_t * id)¶

Retrieves the information about a protocol error:

Parameters

Returns

int err = wl_display_get_error(display);
if (err == EPROTO) {


       code = wl_display_get_protocol_error(display, &interface, &id);


       handle_error(code, interface, id);
}
...

uint32_t wl_display_get_serial (struct wl_display * display)¶

Get the current serial number

Parameters

This function returns the most recent serial number, but does not increment it.

uint32_t wl_display_next_serial (struct wl_display * display)¶

Get the next serial number

Parameters

This function increments the display serial number and returns the new value.

int wl_display_prepare_read (struct wl_display * display)¶

Prepare to read events from the display's file descriptor

Parameters

Returns

This function does the same thing as wl_display_prepare_read_queue() with the default queue passed as the queue.

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int wl_display_prepare_read_queue (struct wl_display * display, struct wl_event_queue * queue)¶

Prepare to read events from the display's file descriptor to a queue

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Returns

This function (or wl_display_prepare_read()) must be called before reading from the file descriptor using wl_display_read_events(). Calling wl_display_prepare_read_queue() announces the calling thread's intention to read and ensures that until the thread is ready to read and calls wl_display_read_events(), no other thread will read from the file descriptor. This only succeeds if the event queue is empty, and if not -1 is returned and errno set to EAGAIN.

If a thread successfully calls wl_display_prepare_read_queue(), it must either call wl_display_read_events() when it's ready or cancel the read intention by calling wl_display_cancel_read().

Use this function before polling on the display fd or integrate the fd into a toolkit event loop in a race-free way. A correct usage would be (with most error checking left out):

while (wl_display_prepare_read_queue(display, queue) != 0)


        wl_display_dispatch_queue_pending(display, queue);
wl_display_flush(display);
ret = poll(fds, nfds, -1);
if (has_error(ret))


        wl_display_cancel_read(display);
else


        wl_display_read_events(display);
wl_display_dispatch_queue_pending(display, queue);

Here we call wl_display_prepare_read_queue(), which ensures that between returning from that call and eventually calling wl_display_read_events(), no other thread will read from the fd and queue events in our queue. If the call to wl_display_prepare_read_queue() fails, we dispatch the pending events and try again until we're successful.

The wl_display_prepare_read_queue() function doesn't acquire exclusive access to the display's fd. It only registers that the thread calling this function has intention to read from fd. When all registered readers call wl_display_read_events(), only one (at random) eventually reads and queues the events and the others are sleeping meanwhile. This way we avoid races and still can read from more threads.

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int wl_display_read_events (struct wl_display * display)¶

Read events from display file descriptor

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Returns

Calling this function will result in data available on the display file descriptor being read and read events will be queued on their corresponding event queues.

Before calling this function, depending on what thread it is to be called from, wl_display_prepare_read_queue() or wl_display_prepare_read() needs to be called. See wl_display_prepare_read_queue() for more details.

When being called at a point where other threads have been prepared to read (using wl_display_prepare_read_queue() or wl_display_prepare_read()) this function will sleep until all other prepared threads have either been cancelled (using wl_display_cancel_read()) or them self entered this function. The last thread that calls this function will then read and queue events on their corresponding event queues, and finally wake up all other wl_display_read_events() calls causing them to return.

If a thread cancels a read preparation when all other threads that have prepared to read has either called wl_display_cancel_read() or wl_display_read_events(), all reader threads will return without having read any data.

To dispatch events that may have been queued, call wl_display_dispatch_pending() or wl_display_dispatch_queue_pending().

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int wl_display_roundtrip (struct wl_display * display)¶

Block until all pending request are processed by the server

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Returns

This function blocks until the server has processed all currently issued requests by sending a request to the display server and waiting for a reply before returning.

This function uses wl_display_dispatch_queue() internally. It is not allowed to call this function while the thread is being prepared for reading events, and doing so will cause a dead lock.

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int wl_display_roundtrip_queue (struct wl_display * display, struct wl_event_queue * queue)¶

Block until all pending request are processed by the server

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Returns

This function blocks until the server has processed all currently issued requests by sending a request to the display server and waiting for a reply before returning.

This function uses wl_display_dispatch_queue() internally. It is not allowed to call this function while the thread is being prepared for reading events, and doing so will cause a dead lock.

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void wl_display_set_default_max_buffer_size (struct wl_display * display, size_t max_buffer_size)¶

Sets the default maximum size for connection buffers of new clients

Parameters

This function sets the default size of the internal connection buffers for new clients. It doesn't change the buffer size for existing wl_client.

The connection buffer size of an existing wl_client can be adjusted using wl_client_set_max_buffer_size().

The actual size of the connection buffers is a power of two, the requested max_buffer_size is therefore rounded up to the nearest power of two value.

The minimum buffer size is 4096.

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void wl_display_set_global_filter (struct wl_display * display, wl_display_global_filter_func_t filter, void * data)¶

Set a filter function for global objects

Parameters

Set a filter for the wl_display to advertise or hide global objects to clients. The set filter will be used during wl_global advertisement to determine whether a global object should be advertised to a given client, and during wl_global binding to determine whether a given client should be allowed to bind to a global.

Clients that try to bind to a global that was filtered out will have an error raised.

Setting the filter NULL will result in all globals being advertised to all clients. The default is no filter.

The filter should be installed before any client connects and should always take the same decision given a client and a global. Not doing so will result in inconsistent filtering and broken wl_registry event sequences.

void wl_display_set_max_buffer_size (struct wl_display * display, size_t max_buffer_size)¶

Adjust the maximum size of the client connection buffers

Parameters

Client buffers are unbounded by default. This function sets a limit to the size of the connection buffers.

A value of 0 for max_buffer_size requests the buffers to be unbounded.

The actual size of the connection buffers is a power of two, the requested max_buffer_size is therefore rounded up to the nearest power of two value.

Lowering the maximum size may not take effect immediately if the current content of the buffer does not fit within the new size limit.

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struct wl_array wl_display::additional_shm_formats¶

struct wl_list wl_display::client_list¶

struct wl_priv_signal wl_display::create_client_signal¶

struct wl_priv_signal wl_display::destroy_signal¶

wl_display_global_filter_func_t wl_display::global_filter¶

void* wl_display::global_filter_data¶

struct wl_list wl_display::global_list¶

struct wl_event_loop* wl_display::loop¶

size_t wl_display::max_buffer_size¶

uint32_t wl_display::next_global_name¶

struct wl_list wl_display::protocol_loggers¶

struct wl_list wl_display::registry_resource_list¶

bool wl_display::run¶

uint32_t wl_display::serial¶

struct wl_list wl_display::socket_list¶

struct wl_event_source* wl_display::term_source¶

int wl_display::terminate_efd¶