Re: Proposed change to Pipmak's grabbing

[Aidan G. <wgs...@no...>]

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Christian Walther wrote:
> 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.

SDL 1.3 has yet to succeed SDL 1.2, and the version in Debian stable is only
one behind the latest upstream version.

I also have no idea where to begin with looking for this bug in SDL.

>> ... 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)?

Yes we did.  I was just pointing out that another X11-only grabbing-issue.

>> 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.

Yes, sorry.  I was getting confused about what was changed.
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