[PATCH] dix: Use DeliverGrabbedEvent for implicit passive grabs (#25400)

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Mon Mar 8 16:51:29 PST 2010


On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:37:35 -0800, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at freedesktop.org> wrote:

> If fluxbox fixes itself, how bad will the behavior be on older  
> ("incorrect") servers?  I'm certainly one for conforming to standards  
> in a tie breaker like this.

The original code (I hesitate to say 'broken' at this point) was written
20 years ago (literally, it was written in 1989 or 1990). I suspect that
simply finding one application which expects the previous behaviour we
should suspect that there are others.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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