<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Bipin George Mathew <<a href="mailto:bipingm@gmail.com" target="_blank">bipingm@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks Joel. This mostly clear things. btw, where did is this comment found? I grep'ed through the compiz 0.7.8 code (<a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/intrepid/compiz" target="_blank">http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/intrepid/compiz</a>) and could not find such a comment. Beryl's code perhaps?</blockquote> <div> <a href="http://gitweb.compiz-fusion.org/?p=fusion/plugins/ezoom;a=blob;f=ezoom.c;h=5749c17e2e1fbe907f9f64e922acea59fd8f5ab7;hb=HEAD" target="_blank">http://gitweb.compiz-fusion.org/?p=fusion/plugins/ezoom;a=blob;f=ezoom.c;h=5749c17e2e1fbe907f9f64e922acea59fd8f5ab7;hb=HEAD</a> Joel. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Chris, You mentioned that the XServer needs rework - do you know what the nature of the rework is and why it is needed? </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks! -Bipin<div><div></div><div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Joel Bosveld <<a href="mailto:joel.bosveld@gmail.com" target="_blank">joel.bosveld@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Bipin George Mathew <<a href="mailto:bipingm@gmail.com" target="_blank">bipingm@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Given that the upstream compiz does not use David's APIs, how is the zoom plugin able to translate the co-ordinates for ButtonPress? While looking at the compiz code, I did find XGrabButton was called on each window created to intercept the events; but I was expecting an XSendEvent with the ButtonPressMask to be called with the transformed co-ordinates- which I not find. Also, I read on the mailinglist that clients can ignore synth events of XSendEvent. Any pointers on how this translation is done? </blockquote></div> </div>From the comments at the top of the code: Note on input We can not redirect input yet, but this plug-in offers two fundamentally different approaches to achieve input enabled zoom: 1. Always have the zoomed area be in sync with the mouse cursor. This binds the zoom area to the mouse position at any given time. It allows using the original mouse cursor drawn by X, and is technically very safe. First used in Beryl's inputzoom. 2. Hide the real cursor and draw our own where it would be when zoomed in. This allows us to navigate with the mouse without constantly moving the zoom area. This is fairly close to what we want in the end when input redirection is available. This second method has one huge issue, which is bugged XFixes. After hiding the cursor once with XFixes, some mouse cursors will simply be invisible. The Firefox loading cursor being one of them. An other minor annoyance is that mouse sensitivity seems to increase as you zoom in, since the mouse isn't really zoomed at all. </blockquote></div> </div></div></blockquote></div>