[Wayland] Sharing indicator window is not frameless

[Heather Ellsworth]

I'm running updated hirsute with the firefox 87.0+build3-0ubuntu4 deb, just as it comes. This system was a fresh install of 20.10 that was then upgraded to 21.04.

When I have a tab that will start using my webcam/mic, there is a new ff window that is created with these icons. The window is (more or less) minimized to fit the size of the icons (see screenshot). I can close the window by clicking the normal x, and closing this window does not interrupt my webcam/mic usage.

What I normally expect is that when my webcam/mic is being used by some ff tab, the ff/webcam/mic icons are displayed constantly in the top middle of my display.
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[Jan Vlug (jan-vlug)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:87.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/87.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. On a system with microphone and webcam attached on a GNOME Wayland session go to https://meet.jit.si and open a meeting.
2. Firefox asks for permission to use the microphone and webcam.
3. Grant permission

Actual results:

A small new Firefox windows appears with the title Firefox - Sharing Indicator. This small window shows that the camera and microphone are in use.

Expected results:

The sharing indicator should appear on top of the desktop (or somewhere else) but preferably not in a new window that sometimes get out if sight behind other windows. In Xorg the indicator is visible at the top of the window or desktop.

[Jan Vlug (jan-vlug)]

See also bug 1628431.

[Jan Vlug (jan-vlug)]

Created attachment 9215735
Screenshot of the small Sharing Indicator window

I attached a screenshot of the small Sharing Indicator window. Note that it is also partially transparent. When this window is resized the transparency disappears.

[Release-mgmt-account-bot (release-mgmt-account-bot)]

The [Bugbug](https://github.com/mozilla/bugbug/) bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

[Dennis Schridde (devurandom)]

I believe this could be a duplicate of bug #1628431.

[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

Also, there are no journalctl logs generated when this happens.

And you can leave the new window with the icons there, or close it. Either way it doesn't seem to make a difference. If you leave it around, and then your webcam/mic usage is over (the meeting ended), then the icons window goes away. So the presence of the icons do indicate whether the webcam/mic are being used or not. If you close the window, you can still use your devices but there is no indication that they are in use.

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[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

It happens in a fresh hirsute vm as well.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

I can confirm the problem, and this is Wayland-specific (tested in a Xorg session in the same VM and the window with media controls is frameless, as expected).

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Upstream builds are similarly affected, when launched with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

This is a known upstream bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1705048.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Also reported downstream in Ubuntu (Ubuntu 21.04, released last week, ships with a Wayland session by default): https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1925837

[Stransky (stransky)]

Created attachment 9220111
Bug 1705048 [Wayland] Emulate X11 popup parentless window as a toplevel on Wayland, r?jhorak

[Pulsebot (pulsebot)]

Pushed by <email address hidden>:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/1f8208b4e636
[Wayland] Emulate X11 popup parentless window as a toplevel on Wayland, r=jhorak

[Smolnar (smolnar)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1f8208b4e636

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

This is fixed upstream (https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1f8208b4e636), and targetted at firefox 90.

[Dennis Schridde (devurandom)]

(In reply to Pulsebot from comment #7)
> Pushed by <email address hidden>:
> https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/1f8208b4e636
> [Wayland] Emulate X11 popup parentless window as a toplevel on Wayland,
> r=jhorak

Thanks, Martin! Does this mean bug #1628431 is also fixed?

[Stransky (stransky)]

(In reply to devurandom from comment #9)
> (In reply to Pulsebot from comment #7)
> > Pushed by <email address hidden>:
> > https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/1f8208b4e636
> > [Wayland] Emulate X11 popup parentless window as a toplevel on Wayland,
> > r=jhorak
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> Thanks, Martin! Does this mean bug #1628431 is also fixed?

Please try that. The windows is still created as toplevel but it has disabled decorations. We can't create it as popup as it does not have a parent window. Bug 1703073 will have huge popup redesign and we should apply correct popup roles when it's fixed.

[Catalin-sasca-z (catalin-sasca-z)]

I was able to reproduce the window issue on Firefox 87.0b5 wayland session under Ubuntu 20.04 by following the info provided in Comment 0.

The issue is fixed and the indicator appeared on the left side of the screen on Firefox 90.0b5 on the same system.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Just assigning for tracking - Olivier, please close when you do the upload!

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

The upstream fix is in the firefox 90 branch, which is currently in beta phase, and will become stable on 2021-07-13.

[Leonhenrik-plickat (leonhenrik-plickat)]

I wonder if it makes more sense to expose the sharing state and controls via DBus and let the desktop environment handle displaying an indicator.

That would solve this issue entirely. Currently there is no universal way for Wayland clients to directly position views (layer-shell does it but is but non-standardized), but with a DBus interface, the desktop can take of this in a way that fits better into the environment. As an example, the desktop could show the indicator as a new widget visually similar to what Firefox does on non-Wayland desktops, or it could also place it into the status area of the panel.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's fixed now?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Yes it is.