Event redirection issue: determining the type of triggered grabs
Jim Gettys
jg at freedesktop.org
Wed Jan 18 19:27:40 PST 2006
My memory is that this may be one of the problems and solutions
suggested in Mark Manasse and Hania's paper on problems with the X
protocol, oh, so many years ago.
Might be a good time to refresh the memory banks again.
- Jim
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 18:42 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 14:51 -0800, Deron Johnson wrote:
>
> > > Is this an issue?
> >
> > Yes. I will need the Enter event on the activate grab to ALWAYS be
> > generated. It looks like we might have to add a "force" argument
> > to DoEnterLeaveEvents. Any other ideas?
>
> We could add new events to XFixes that were delivered whenever the
> pointer was grabbed. That seems in scope for XFixes, and seems somewhat
> cleaner than hacking the existing EnterNotify events.
>
> I can envision other uses for such an event already; changing feedback
> and behaviour of the pointer device, for instance.
>
> _______________________________________________
> xorg-arch mailing list
> xorg-arch at lists.x.org
> http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-arch
More information about the xorg-arch
mailing list