Add Xsettings support, for setting scaling related settings

This allows for most GTK and Qt apps to be scaled properly.
In the case of mixed DPI, it will default to using the smallest monitor scale.
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Shawn Wallace 2025-05-23 23:25:33 -04:00
parent ec9ff64c1e
commit 572fa4a2bf
9 changed files with 466 additions and 11 deletions

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use super::XState;
use log::warn;
use std::collections::HashMap;
use xcb::x;
impl XState {
pub(crate) fn set_xsettings_owner(&self) {
self.connection
.send_and_check_request(&x::SetSelectionOwner {
owner: self.settings.window,
selection: self.atoms.xsettings,
time: x::CURRENT_TIME,
})
.unwrap();
let reply = self
.connection
.wait_for_reply(self.connection.send_request(&x::GetSelectionOwner {
selection: self.atoms.xsettings,
}))
.unwrap();
if reply.owner() != self.settings.window {
warn!(
"Could not get XSETTINGS selection (owned by {:?})",
reply.owner()
);
}
}
pub(crate) fn update_global_scale(&mut self, scale: i32) {
self.settings.set_scale(scale);
self.connection
.send_and_check_request(&x::ChangeProperty {
window: self.settings.window,
mode: x::PropMode::Replace,
property: self.atoms.xsettings_settings,
r#type: self.atoms.xsettings_settings,
data: &self.settings.as_data(),
})
.unwrap();
}
}
/// The DPI consider 1x scale by X11.
const DEFAULT_DPI: i32 = 96;
/// I don't know why, but the DPI related xsettings seem to
/// divide the DPI by 1024.
const DPI_SCALE_FACTOR: i32 = 1024;
const XFT_DPI: &str = "Xft/DPI";
const GDK_WINDOW_SCALE: &str = "Gdk/WindowScalingFactor";
const GDK_UNSCALED_DPI: &str = "Gdk/UnscaledDPI";
pub(super) struct Settings {
window: x::Window,
serial: u32,
settings: HashMap<&'static str, IntSetting>,
}
struct IntSetting {
value: i32,
last_change_serial: u32,
}
mod setting_type {
pub const INTEGER: u8 = 0;
}
impl Settings {
pub(super) fn new(connection: &xcb::Connection, atoms: &super::Atoms, root: x::Window) -> Self {
let window = connection.generate_id();
connection
.send_and_check_request(&x::CreateWindow {
wid: window,
width: 1,
height: 1,
depth: 0,
parent: root,
x: 0,
y: 0,
border_width: 0,
class: x::WindowClass::InputOnly,
visual: x::COPY_FROM_PARENT,
value_list: &[],
})
.expect("Couldn't create window for settings");
let s = Settings {
window,
serial: 0,
settings: HashMap::from([
(
XFT_DPI,
IntSetting {
value: DEFAULT_DPI * DPI_SCALE_FACTOR,
last_change_serial: 0,
},
),
(
GDK_WINDOW_SCALE,
IntSetting {
value: 1,
last_change_serial: 0,
},
),
(
GDK_UNSCALED_DPI,
IntSetting {
value: DEFAULT_DPI * DPI_SCALE_FACTOR,
last_change_serial: 0,
},
),
]),
};
connection
.send_and_check_request(&x::ChangeProperty {
window,
mode: x::PropMode::Replace,
property: atoms.xsettings_settings,
r#type: atoms.xsettings_settings,
data: &s.as_data(),
})
.unwrap();
s
}
fn as_data(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
// https://specifications.freedesktop.org/xsettings-spec/0.5/#format
let mut data = vec![
// GTK seems to use this value for byte order from the X.h header,
// so I assume I can use it too.
x::ImageOrder::LsbFirst as u8,
// unused
0,
0,
0,
];
data.extend_from_slice(&self.serial.to_le_bytes());
data.extend_from_slice(&(self.settings.len() as u32).to_le_bytes());
fn insert_with_padding(data: &[u8], out: &mut Vec<u8>) {
out.extend_from_slice(data);
// See https://x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xproto/x11protocol.html#Syntactic_Conventions_b
let num_padding_bytes = (4 - (data.len() % 4)) % 4;
out.extend(std::iter::repeat_n(0, num_padding_bytes));
}
for (name, setting) in &self.settings {
data.extend_from_slice(&[setting_type::INTEGER, 0]);
data.extend_from_slice(&(name.len() as u16).to_le_bytes());
insert_with_padding(name.as_bytes(), &mut data);
data.extend_from_slice(&setting.last_change_serial.to_le_bytes());
data.extend_from_slice(&setting.value.to_le_bytes());
}
data
}
fn set_scale(&mut self, scale: i32) {
self.serial += 1;
self.settings.entry(XFT_DPI).insert_entry(IntSetting {
value: scale * DEFAULT_DPI * DPI_SCALE_FACTOR,
last_change_serial: self.serial,
});
self.settings
.entry(GDK_WINDOW_SCALE)
.insert_entry(IntSetting {
value: scale,
last_change_serial: self.serial,
});
}
}