Did we change PropertyNotify in the past ?

[Jay Cotton]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 15:56 -0700, Jay Cotton wrote:
> 
>>Hi:
>>
>>I'm working on an issue with PropertyNotify.
>>
>>In the X Protocol Reference Manual page 231.
>>
>>	PropertyNotify event.
>>
>>	<in part>
>>
>>	This event is reported to clients selecting PropertyChange on the window
>>	and is generated with state NewValue ....  etc.
>>
>>I don't see how we ever turn this off.  There is no code that would exclude
>>this notice, and I don't see where we turn it on, or filter the event.
>>
>>Did I miss something in the X11R5 to X11R6 transition ?
> 
> 
> I'm a little confused by this question. Clearly:
> 
>  - Apps don't get PropertyNotify events for windows they haven't 
>    selected for PropertyChangeMask on.

When is this mask asserted?  At window create or via protocol request?

> 
>  - Apps can select for PropertyNotify events for windows they are
>    interested in.
> 
> If either wasn't true, the entire session would fall apart, either in
> a storm of millions of events, or in a complete non-workingness of 
> ICCCM protocols.
> 
> Without digging into the server code, I assume that the question of what
> clients get the events gets handled by the normal server mechanisms
> for implementing SelectInput.
> 
> Regards,
> 						Owen
> 


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