List of topmost window issues

Deron Johnson Deron.Johnson at Sun.COM
Mon Jan 9 11:06:26 PST 2006


What bits are currently not in use?

Keith Packard wrote On 01/06/06 18:11,:
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 16:52 -0800, Deron Johnson wrote:
> 
>>Deron Johnson wrote On 01/06/06 16:48,:
>>
>>
>>>+ Issue: Is there a bit available in the window structure that we can steal,
>>>         or do we need to allocate a new window private?
>>
>>It might not be such a bad idea to add an XFIXES window private. When I
>>look at some of the changes we are going to have to made to make 3D
>>grabbing work it is very possible that we are going to need to store
>>other per-window data.
> 
> 
> We've got space for two or three more boolean values in the regular
> window structure without causing any size bump. Given that this
> particular flag must be checked during restacking operations and other
> window query steps, having it available directly will make the code a
> whole lot simpler.
> 
> -keith
> 




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