Follow up from #1232, osx has an API to give us those rectangles: CGScreenUpdateMoveCallback. It shouldn't be too hard to add this callback to the osx shadow server, it will be a little bit more difficult to bypass most of the screen damage logic to go straight to the "scrolling" encoder.
attempt to use CGScreenRegisterMoveCallback
The patch above fails with a cryptic error message: SystemError: error return without exception set
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Maybe we'll need to use Cython to get this to work. PITA.
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updated patch
Even with the latest pyobjc 6.1 and the refreshed patch, registering for the callback fails:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/antoine/Desktop/Xpra.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python/xpra/server/shadow/shadow_server_base.py", line 431, in _process_map_window self.start_refresh(wid) File "/Users/antoine/Desktop/Xpra.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python/xpra/platform/darwin/shadow_server.py", line 162, in start_refresh err = CG.CGScreenRegisterMoveCallback(self.screen_move_callback, None) SystemError: <built-in function CGScreenRegisterMoveCallback> returned NULL without setting an error
And this API is deprecated anyway, in favour of the Quartz Display Streaming API
this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1321