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linux: fix offscreen media playback - #97
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Issue
With ExperimentalOffscreen on, video and audio never play. The page loads fine and
the element is there, it just never starts. The same page plays on the non-offscreen
adapter.
The offscreen adapter parents the web view in a GtkOffscreenWindow, and WebKit won't
start media when the toplevel is one. That decision is made inside WebKit from the
type of the toplevel.
Fix
Use a window that draws offscreen without being a
GtkOffscreenWindow.GtkOffscreenHostWindowregisters a GObject type at runtime deriving fromGtkWindow,and in class_init copies the class-struct slots where
GtkOffscreenWindowdiffers fromGtkWindowinto its own class struct. Rendering is the same as before, but WebKit sees aplain GtkWindow toplevel and media plays.
Before (nothing load):

After:
Screencast_20261013_164149.webm