[Xcb] xcb_event_loop renaming

Arnaud Fontaine arnaud at andesi.org
Tue Feb 12 08:24:00 PST 2008


Hi,

    Jamey> The SendEvent  bit is provided because there  are cases where
    Jamey>  applications need to  know whether  the event  was generated
    Jamey> internally  by the X server,  or whether it  was generated by
    Jamey> another X client with  the SendEvent request. I thought ICCCM
    Jamey>  or EWMH  actually required  this somewhere,  but I  could be
    Jamey> wrong.

    Jamey> You do need to ignore the SendEvent bit in order to determine
    Jamey> which actual event you have, though.

I have just read your mail and now understand how it works. Thanks a lot
for the explanation and the fix for my patch.

Regards,
Arnaud Fontaine


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