Limiting the position to (x + width - 1, y + height - 1) created a 1px
"dead zone" at monitor edges, noticeable with high-resolution mice with
motion deltas of <1px.
See: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8110
Using (x + width - 1/65536, y + height - 1/65536) instead should make
the "dead zone" small enough to be unobservable, while the value 1/65536
is still large enough to avoid rounding to zero (due to loss of
significant digits) in simple floating-point calculations.
This does expose a client-side bug in Qt layer-shell applications,
noticeable in right/bottom panels which do not accept positions beyond
(x + width - 1, x + height - 1) as valid - thus driving the cursor
to the bottom/right of the screen to click on the panel does not work.
I don't have a good workaround for this, and probably it needs to be
fixed in Qt itself.
Fixes: 3fc66d4525
("util: fix non-linear behavior of wlr_box_closest_point()")
Per comments in util/box.h, the width and height of a wlr_box are
exclusive; that is, for a 100x100 box at (0,0), the point (99,99) is
inside it while the point (100,100) is outside it.
Thus mathematically, there exists no single closest point to the
bottom-right corner of the box while remaining inside it. You can
construct an infinite series approaching the limit, such as {(99,99),
(99.9,99.9), (99.99,99.99)...}, but since the intervals are half-open,
there is no "last" point.
wlr_box_closest_point() must therefore define an arbitrary "closest"
point. For points below and to the right of the box, the current
implementation returns (box.x + width - 1, box.y + height - 1). Let's
continue to do this.
However, the current implementation is non-linear: with the example
100x100 box, it will return an input point of (99.9,99.9) unchanged, but
for an input point (100.1,100.1) the returned point will jump back to
(99.0,99.0).
In practice, this non-linearity results in strange behaviors when
driving the mouse cursor to a screen corner. On a 1920x1080 display for
example, driving the cursor quickly to the bottom-left corner results in
a position of exactly (0,1079). Continuing to slowly nudge the cursor
downward results in the position jumping between (0,1079) and other,
fractional coordinates such as (0,1079.88).
The fractional coordinates expose some client/toolkit-side bugs (which,
to be clear, should be fixed on the client side), but IMHO the wlroots
behavior is also inconsistent and wrong -- when I drive the mouse cursor
into the corner of the screen, it should come to a stop at a fixed
position, not jitter around.
Alexander Orzechowski
John Lindgren
Kirill Primak
Alexander Orzechowski
Simon Ser
Kirill Primak
Simon Zeni