rethrowing events, and digests

[Keith Packard]

Around 11 o'clock on Feb 9, Luke Bigum wrote:

> After an application grabs the keyboard and mouse, is there a way to 'rethrow' 
> the event so that it gets passed to the correct window? Or is there a way to 
> sample each event as it occurs without stopping it?

With a synchronous grab, you can receive the event, change the system and 
then 'replay' the event.  Useful for doing click-to-type without losing 
clicks.

But, there's no (current) way to filter events.  We need something like 
this to deal with transformed windows.  I'm a bit worried about latency 
though; I'm wondering if the X server should have a monopoly on 
communication with the mouse.

> Second, I saw a few files called 'digest' (i think) a week ago while browsing 
> the cvs that gave an excelent description of functions and their uses (i saw 
> one for xfixes and render,

Doesn't sound familiar.  I can't imagine people would be deleting 
documentation though.  It's hard enough to get it written in the first 
place.

-keith