Create a *real* top level window

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:01:24 +0300 Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors at iki.fi>
said:

> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at rasterman.com> writes:
> > 1. if user client does an xgrab(server/keyboard/pointer) and u stop socat
> > before the grab is released.. you're SOL. a "race condition" or more a
> > "state condition" you havent accounted for.
> 
> A possible solution is to just revert to the old "switch to another
> virtual console" approach or sound an alarm through the speakers in
> such a case.

ugh! horrible usability. one should not rely on vt switching as a usability
feature - if you need this to fix/get around something, it's a bug and it needs
fixing :)

> > 2. user clients like the wm and cm will cease to work here while you have
> > the root stopping socat - this will effectively bring the display to a
> > grinding halt. much like #1.
> 
> The xterm spawned by root can still be used. It is ok in my use case
> that it is not possible to move/resize this SAK "menu".

it can only be used *IF* it happens to have been focused by the wm at that
time... and you forget the cm. output updates can't be seen at all as long as
its suspended. :) so the screen entirely will freeze (except for mouse cursor
moving around)

> > segment content and hat is just pixel data - so at worst they can spew out
> > garbage pixels. not too different to what many clients do anyway :) so this
> > is harmless.
> 
> Good to know.
> 


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