D1230: GBM remote access support for KWin

[Oleg Chernovskiy]

Kanedias added a comment.


  In https://phabricator.kde.org/D1230#114175, @davidedmundson wrote:
  
  > There is one issue we need to work out how to fix - with this system if you're running VNC you won't see the client's mouse.
  
  
  Nice catch, I didn't notice that until you pointed that out!
  
  > - We make kwin render the background + cursor into a new texture
  
  Sounds pretty heavy, we'd need to copy frame on each page flip...
  
  > - We provide the mouse buffer to the RemoteAccess buffer just like we pass the outputs. We would need to pass some sort of offset in org_kde_kwin_remote_buffer
  
  Offset - you mean, mouse offset, so acceptor knows where to render it?
  
  > - dynamically switch usesSoftwareCursor() in the backend when recording.
  
  Can it break something? As I see DrmBackend never used softwareCursor before...
  
  Okay, which option is more preferable here? I tend to think it's №2.

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