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Olivier Fourdan e167299f60 xfixes: Add ClientDisconnectMode
With Wayland compositors now being able to start Xwayland on demand, the
next logical step is to be able to stop Xwayland when there is no more
need for it.

The Xserver itself is capable of terminating itself once all X11 clients
are gone, yet in a typical full session, there are a number of X11
clients running continuously (e.g. the Xsettings daemon, IBus, etc.).

Those always-running clients will prevent the Xserver from terminating,
because the actual number of X11 clients will never drop to 0. Worse,
the X11 window manager of a Wayland compositor also counts as an X11
client, hence also preventing Xwayland from stopping.

Some compositors such as mutter use the XRes extension to query the X11
clients connected, match their PID with the actual executable name and
compare those with a list of executables that can be ignored when
deciding to kill the Xserver.

But that's not just clumsy, it is also racy, because a new X11 client
might initiate a connection the X11 server right when the compositor is
about to kill it.

To solve this issue directly at the Xserver level, this add new entries
to the XFixes extension to let the X11 clients themselves specify the
disconnect mode they expect.

Typically, those X11 daemon clients would specify the disconnect mode
XFixesClientDisconnectFlagTerminate to let the Xserver know that they
should not be accounted for when checking the remaining clients prior
to terminate.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2021-06-07 17:28:05 +02:00
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README.md

X Server

The X server accepts requests from client applications to create windows, which are (normally rectangular) "virtual screens" that the client program can draw into.

Windows are then composed on the actual screen by the X server (or by a separate composite manager) as directed by the window manager, which usually communicates with the user via graphical controls such as buttons and draggable titlebars and borders.

For a comprehensive overview of X Server and X Window System, consult the following article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_server

All questions regarding this software should be directed at the Xorg mailing list:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

The primary development code repository can be found at:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver

For patch submission instructions, see:

https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

As with other projects hosted on freedesktop.org, X.Org follows its Code of Conduct, based on the Contributor Covenant. Please conduct yourself in a respectful and civilized manner when using the above mailing lists, bug trackers, etc:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct