docs: correct the cursor plane facts, and drop the legacy rustdesk patches - #51
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…tches The README said a bare-metal compositor never updates the atomic CRTC_X/CRTC_Y plane position and sent readers to root-only debugfs for it. Measured on 2026-08-18/19: the plane position tracks the pointer on amdgpu under KWin and on i915 under Mutter, 100 logical px of pointer motion moving CRTC_X by 266 physical px on that scaled output. The claim also contradicted the feature table and the library's own get_cursor, which has always returned exactly those properties. What is missing on bare metal is only the hotspot, so document both ways to get it - measured against an injected pointer, which is exact, or estimated from the bitmap, which costs about half a glyph - and say which space x/y is in, in the README, the header, the Rust wrapper and the research notes. patches/rustdesk/ goes: it targeted v1.4.6 and the static-crate design, the merged integration dlopens and has no helper, and its postinst installed that helper world-executable before applying cap_sys_admin - the one thing README and SECURITY tell integrators never to do.
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WalkthroughThe change clarifies cursor coordinates, hotspot availability, and hidden-cursor results. It updates DRM, version, test, and screenshot documentation, removes the RustDesk patch bundle, and records these changes in the changelog. ChangesCursor API and behavior documentation
DRM and repository maintenance
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR changes documentation and removes obsolete integration patches without adding runtime behavior. A few published API and maintainer instructions still contain concrete inaccuracies about hidden cursor results, coordinate conversion, and version checks, so the change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up. Possibly related issues
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In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Line 381: Update the meson.build description in AGENTS.md to state that Meson
validates its project version against include/drmtap.h, rather than deriving the
project version from the header.
In `@bindings/rust/libdrmtap/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 347-350: Update the hotspot-recovery documentation near
Cursor::x() and Cursor::y() to require converting injected pointer coordinates
from compositor logical pixels into the same CRTC-relative physical-pixel space
before applying the injected_position minus plane_position formula, preserving
the existing fallback estimation guidance.
In `@docs/research/01_wayland_capture_problem.md`:
- Line 124: Update the DRM cursor-plane description to state that position is
exact only for an active cursor plane. Clarify that consumers must ignore x and
y when drmtap_get_cursor reports visible == 0 because those values are stale or
invalid.
In `@include/drmtap.h`:
- Around line 476-493: The cursor documentation must not claim x, y, or hotspot
metadata is stale while hidden, because the cursor update path clears
drmtap_cursor_info before handling unbound or fb_id == 0 planes. Update the
comments for x, y, hot_x, and hot_y to state that these fields are not
meaningful when visible is 0, while preserving their existing coordinate and
hotspot semantics when visible.
Apply the same fix in `@bindings/rust/libdrmtap-sys/csrc/drmtap.h` around lines
481 - 482: The Rust sys header contains the same hidden-result documentation and
should match the public header.
In `@tools/README.md`:
- Around line 32-36: Update the check-version.sh documentation in
tools/README.md to include AGENTS.md and the crates in the version-scan scope,
matching the paths scanned by the script while preserving the existing docs/,
contrib/, README, and file-extension coverage.
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docs/research/**/*.md
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docs/research/**/*.md: 1. English always
2. Include date and sources in research docs
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docs/research/01_wayland_capture_problem.mddocs/research/05_api_and_architecture.md
**/*.{c,h}
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**/*.{c,h}: | Indent | 4 spaces, never tabs |
| Naming: functions |snake_case, prefixeddrmtap_for public API |
| Naming: variables |snake_case|
| Naming: macros/constants |UPPER_SNAKE_CASE, prefixedDRMTAP_|
| Braces | Same line (1TBS style) |
| Error handling | Return negative errno values, never abort |
| Memory | Always check malloc returns, always free in cleanup |
Every .c and .h file MUST start with this header block:
// 1. Includes (grouped: system, library, project)
- Any new function should have a corresponding test
- Never crash, never abort
- Return error codes (negative errno)
- Clean up resources on error paths (goto cleanup pattern)
- Follow the error handling pattern —
goto cleanup, never abort
Files:
bindings/rust/libdrmtap-sys/csrc/drmtap.hbindings/rust/libdrmtap-sys/csrc/drm_grab.cbindings/rust/libdrmtap-sys/csrc/cursor.csrc/drm_grab.cinclude/drmtap.hsrc/cursor.c
src/drm_grab.c
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- Never cache
fb_id— always refresh viadrmModeGetPlane()each frame
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src/drm_grab.c
src/*.{c,h}
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src/*.{c,h}: 3. Detecthandles[0] == 0— this means CAP_SYS_ADMIN is missing, trigger helper
4. Use Prime path (not GEM_FLINK) — GEM_FLINK doesn't work with vkms
5. Check modifier for tiling —DRM_FORMAT_MOD_LINEARmeans no deswizzle needed
Files:
src/drm_grab.csrc/cursor.c
include/drmtap.h
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Public API functions in drmtap.h use Doxygen comments:
Files:
include/drmtap.h
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File: AGENTS.md:0-0
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Learning: Applies to **/* : Keep the C library, Meson project, `libdrmtap-sys`, and `libdrmtap` on one shared version line, with the canonical version in `include/drmtap.h` and verification through `tools/check-version.sh`.
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docs/research/01_wayland_capture_problem.md
[style] ~124-~124: Consider using “who” when you are referring to a person instead of an object.
Context: ...tspot is not exposed at all: a consumer that injects the pointer can measure it, one...
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CHANGELOG.md
[style] ~23-~23: Consider using “who” when you are referring to a person instead of an object.
Context: ...sition makes it recoverable: a consumer that injects the pointer can measure `hotspo...
(THAT_WHO)
[style] ~37-~37: Consider an alternative for the overused word “exactly”.
Context: ...lied cap_sys_admin+ep to it, which is exactly what README.md and SECURITY.md tell int...
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README.md (3)
79-79: LGTM!
248-250: LGTM!
377-384: LGTM!bindings/rust/libdrmtap-sys/csrc/cursor.c (1)
14-18: LGTM!bindings/rust/libdrmtap/README.md (1)
70-70: LGTM!src/cursor.c (1)
14-18: LGTM!bindings/rust/libdrmtap-sys/csrc/drm_grab.c (1)
649-652: LGTM!src/drm_grab.c (1)
649-652: LGTM!docs/research/05_api_and_architecture.md (1)
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AGENTS.md (1)
218-224: LGTM!Also applies to: 405-408
drmtap_get_cursor memsets the struct on entry, so a hidden result carries no position at all - the previous wording said the fields keep whatever the plane last had, which would have a consumer trust 0,0 as a location. Also name the logical-to-physical conversion the hotspot recovery needs, and correct two descriptions of what meson and the version scan actually do.
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doc-only. no code, no version bump, no publish.
the wrong fact
the cursor entry in Known Limitations said that on bare metal a compositor moves the cursor with the legacy
drmModeMoveCursorioctl, "which never updates the atomicCRTC_X/CRTC_Yplane position either", and then sent the reader to root-only debugfs to get the exact position.measured on 2026-08-18/19, it is wrong on both drivers i own:
CRTC_Xby 266 physical px on that scaled output, monotonic over three samples, with a found/not-found flag andCRTC_Xas the positive controlit also contradicted the paragraph's own opening ("position captured exactly"), the feature table row, and
drmtap_get_cursor, which has always returned exactly those two properties. what confuses a passive reading is that an idle pointer leaves the plane unbound with stale coordinates, which is now stated.what is actually missing on bare metal
only the hotspot:
HOTSPOT_X/HOTSPOT_Yexist only on para-virtualized drivers. since the plane position IS live, there are two ways out and they are not equivalent, so both are documented now: a consumer that injects the pointer can measurehotspot = injected_position - plane_positiononce both settle, which is exact; one that does not has to estimate from the bitmap, which costs about half a glyph on a wide centre-hotspot shape (measured(4,16)guessed against(26,23)real on a resize arrow, 19 px out). the old text called that "a few pixels".the public header, the Rust wrapper accessors and the research notes now also say which space
x/yis in - the top-left of the image, in the CRTC's physical pixels, CRTC-relative - because getting that wrong is what cost me two designs before the measurement.removed: patches/rustdesk/
it targeted RustDesk v1.4.6 and the static-crate design with a privileged helper. the upstream integration merged on 2026-08-06, dlopens the library and has no helper;
contrib/integrations/rustdesk/is the maintained reference. and itspostinstinstalled the helper world-executable and then appliedcap_sys_admin+ep, which README.md and SECURITY.md both tell integrators never to do.smaller corrections
cursor.cclaimed to readSRC_X/SRC_Y;docs/research/05documented-ENOENTwhere the contract returns 0 withvisible = 0;drm_grab.cdescribed the atomic cap as lazy whendrmtap_opensets it for every context; the shared version line is described from 0.5.1, when it actually held, rather than 0.5.0, which announced it and shipped the wrapper still on 0.3.4; AGENTS.md pointed at meson.build for the canonical version, listed six test files short, and said screenshot.c writes PNG when it writes PPM.checks:
tools/check-version.shOK,sync-crate.sh --checkclean, meson build + 11/11 tests,cargo docclean.