Input shaping

[Felix Schulte]

On 6/10/05, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 06:12:38PM +0200, Felix Schulte wrote:
> > On 6/10/05, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 24 March 2005 15:05, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> > > > In this thread:
> > > >
> > > >       http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-January/005962.html
> > > >
> > > > Keith describes and extension to the Shape extension allowing windows
> > > > to have an "input shape" in addition to the exisiting clip and
> > > > bounding shapes.
> > >
> > > The only major objection I heard regarding this was that Xnest and Xdmx need
> > > to be extended to support it as well.  I've committed this patch and opened a
> > > new bug for adding input shape support to those two.
> >
> > Is the Shape extension now broken in Xnest and Xdmx?
> 
> If you care about Xnest, you might want to look at any number of the
> crashes that make it unusable, including the current really fun one
> where the server segfaults on regeneration.  Or when you ask it to do
> Composite.  Or the one where it doesn't support Render.  Or the one
> where it doesn't support SHM.  Or ...
> 
> So, 'no more broken than it already is'.
These comments are *not* very constructive. I've been asking about the
commit of the Input Shape patch and not about optional features such
as Render/Composite or general rants about Xnest instability.

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