XI2 SD grabs

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Wed Aug 5 16:59:29 PDT 2009


On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 06:36:24PM +0200, Simon Thum wrote:
> Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > Sorry for the late answer. Having thought about this again I agree with you
> > - grabbing a slave device through an XI2 grab should detach the device.
> > This guarantees a client exclusive access to the device - one of the two
> > main reasons why a grab is useful.
> > 
> > I'll revert the patches and update the documentation.
> I don't have much of an opinion here but what about existing gtk apps
> (gimp, inkscape)? Or is that a different matter?

not affected, the detaching only happens for XI2 grabs so we preserve the
XI1 behaviour.

Cheers,
  Peter


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