Feature request: Expose QApplication.nativeInterface

[Zach Pearson]

I’m going to pass them down to the C++ layer and put them in VkWaylandSurfaceCreateInfoKHR.display and VkXcbSurfaceCreateInfoKHR.connection

— Zach

> On 19 Aug 2025, at 13:15, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes but I'm obviously not going to provide wrappers for Wayland and XCB. How are you actually going to use the values?
> 
> Phil
> 
> On 19/08/2025 18:31, Zach Pearson wrote:
>> In the Qt6 C++ documentation, QX11Application.connection() returns the
>> X connection of the application (for XCB), and
>> QWaylandApplication.display() returns the wl_display connection of the
>> application.
>> (X11) https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qnativeinterface-qx11application.html
>> (Wayland) https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qnativeinterface-qwaylandapplication.html
>> — Zach
>>> On 19 Aug 2025, at 03:32, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>>> On 18/08/2025 21:59, Zach Pearson wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I was experimenting with making a toy Vulkan renderer with Python
>>>> bindings, but I hit a roadblock creating surfaces on Linux. On macOS
>>>> or Windows, you only need your desired window’s window_id to create a
>>>> surface on it. But when you go to generate Vulkan surfaces on Linux
>>>> you have to pass in handles to the program’s connection to the
>>>> windowing system, and you have to get those from
>>>> QApplication.instance().nativeInterface(). Depending on whether you’re
>>>> using ‘wayland’ as your qt platform or ‘xcb’, you get back either
>>>> QWaylandApplication or QX11Application, and then you can call
>>>> display() or connection() respectively to get the data you need.
>>>> On PySide6 using ‘xcb’ as the qt platform, you get a native interface
>>>> back when you call QApplication.instance().nativeInterface(), though
>>>> when using ‘wayland’ that call returns None (they plan to actually
>>>> return QWaylandApplication in PySide6 6.10). On PyQt, I get an error
>>>> ‘QApplication has no attribute nativeInterface’.
>>>> Could you expose that attribute in a future release of PyQt6?
>>> What would display() or connection() have to return to make them useful?
>>> Phil