Re: Proposed change to Pipmak's grabbing

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

Aidan Gauland wrote:
> What I don't like is that Pipmak makes the mouse jump when the mouse moves
> over and past the window.

Then the proper course of action would be to fix this in SDL. Grabbing 
and ungrabbing should not make the mouse jump. I have never examined 
grabbing in the X11 backend of SDL, maybe it's easy to fix. Maybe it's 
even fixed already - I haven't followed SDL development for almost two 
years. I don't even know what the status of SDL 1.3 is, whether it has 
already supplanted 1.2 as the "stable" version.

> ... someone else on the mailing lists (Urs, I think) said that he had
> problems with Pipmak's edge-resistance on KDE's window manager

Didn't we eliminate the edge resistance (r177)?

> Maybe we need to, instead, look at the workaround to prevent the mouse from
> becoming permanently grabbed.  I think it was to generate a mouse-motion
> event, which would be why the mouse jumps.

Are you talking about any of revs 178, 179, 180, 195? I'm not sure if 
they have anything to do with the issue.

> Or make it possible to force
> grabbing *off* permanently (but this probably would not improve anything).

That would make direct mouse mode unusable.

  -Christian