For some video cards, hardware rendered cursors fail to change properly.
Add a variable that users can use for these cards when starting Weston.
Also document in the man page
---
man/weston.man | 4 ++++
src/compositor-drm.c | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/weston.man b/man/weston.man
index c5dc2f2..fd12938 100644
--- a/man/weston.man
+++ b/man/weston.man
@@ -267,6 +267,10 @@ This allows launching Weston as a nested server.
For Wayland clients, holds the file descriptor of an open local socket
to a Wayland server.
.TP
+.B WESTON_FORCE_SW_CURSORS
+Set this variable to force Weston to use software cursors when under the
+compositor-drm backend
+.TP
.B WESTON_CONFIG_FILE
Weston sets this variable to the absolute path of the configuration file
it loads, or to the empty string if no file is used. Programs that use
diff --git a/src/compositor-drm.c b/src/compositor-drm.c
index 0cdb8f4..ba12497 100644
--- a/src/compositor-drm.c
+++ b/src/compositor-drm.c
@@ -1641,7 +1641,10 @@ drm_output_init_egl(struct drm_output *output, struct
drm_compositor *ec)
weston_log("cursor buffers unavailable, using gl cursors\n");
ec->cursors_are_broken = 1;
}
-
+ if (getenv("WESTON_FORCE_SW_CURSORS")
+ {
+ ec->cursors_are_broken = 1;
+ }
return 0;
}
--
2.1.0
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