[PATCH 00/12] Multihead screen crossing fixes
Daniel Stone
daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Oct 4 03:38:18 PDT 2011
Hi,
On 4 October 2011 06:23, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> This is another attempt at the screen crossing fixes that I sent out last
> month. The basic goal was to make switching between ScreenRecs work for
> absolute devices. Which turned out tricky and the best solution I came up
> with was to unify multiscreen pointer behaviour between RandR and Xinerama -
> an absolute device is now mapped to the total area across all screens.
>
> Patches 01-06 are general cleanup and documentation fixes, the fun starts at
> 07. For the true connoisseur of insanity I recommend 12/12, the comment
> before fill_pointer_events is worth reading. I'm sure you'll be laughing
> until bedtime at the necessity of juggling 5 different coordinate systems
> between devices, pointer placement and protocol events.
> (That's the simplest solution I could come up with, everything else I tried
> I ran into a wall.)
For patches 1-11:
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
although returning a screen from miPointerSetPosition seems a bit
weird. Oh well.
I'm not sure I'm feeling up to 12 right now, as I just ate breakfast.
Cheers,
Daniel
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