[PATCH] Addition to XFixes for cursor constraint

[James Willcox]

Keith,

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:03:49 -0400, Adam Goode <adam at spicenitz.org> wrote:
> > On 06/18/2010 03:08 AM, Keith Packard wrote:
> > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:19:04 -0400, Adam Goode <adam at spicenitz.org>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20334
> > >
> > > Disjoint areas have always been the issue with this bug; not sure this
> > > solves it?
> > >
> >
> > Hmm, I guess you're right. But maybe at least Gnome, which doesn't
> > appear to support disjoint areas in the GUI configuration program, could
> > use this?
>
> If this interface is going to support disjoint regions (which the
> suggested implementation does), then it better have defined semantics
> for how to 'jump' from one area to another. As I recall, That's what
> stopped progress with the RandR cursor confinement.
>

Yeah, my patches don't do anything about this problem.  It just uses the
extents box of the region as the constraint.  Of course, nothing stops it
from being smarter in the future -- it's just not within the scope of what
I'm trying to do.


>
> In any case, with sensible semantics, I wouldn't mind having cursor
> confinement disconnected from the window hierarchy.


Ok, is there anything about these patches that you don't like?  What can I
do to get this in to $XORG_NEXT?

Thanks,
James
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