Event redirection issue: determining the type of triggered grabs

[Jim Gettys]

My memory is that this may be one of the problems and solutions
suggested in Mark Manasse and Hania's paper on problems with the X
protocol, oh, so many years ago.

Might be a good time to refresh the memory banks again.
				- Jim


On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 18:42 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 14:51 -0800, Deron Johnson wrote:
> 
> > > Is this an issue?  
> > 
> > Yes. I will need the Enter event on the activate grab to ALWAYS be
> > generated. It looks like we might have to add a "force" argument
> > to DoEnterLeaveEvents. Any other ideas?
> 
> We could add new events to XFixes that were delivered whenever the
> pointer was grabbed. That seems in scope for XFixes, and seems somewhat
> cleaner than hacking the existing EnterNotify events.
> 
> I can envision other uses for such an event already; changing feedback
> and behaviour of the pointer device, for instance. 
> 
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