[PATCH 00/29] Pointer barrier events and barrier releases

[Jasper St. Pierre]

n Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>wrote:

>
>
> This is the server-side for the pointer-barrier patches, proposed as XI
> 2.3.
> It adds events for pointer barriers (when the pointer hits vs leaves the
> arrier) and the ability to release a pointer across. I hereby propose this
> for the 1.14 release.
>
> Trees for testing available from:
>     git://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/xserver.git barriers
>     git://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/libXi.git barriers
>     git://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/inputproto.git barriers
>
> More verbose description:
>
> http://who-t.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/whats-new-in-xi-23-pointer-barrier.html
>
> KNOWN BROKEN: events/releases in the MPX case, though it works fine if the
> barrier doesn't apply to more than one device at a time.
> - releases currently ignore the device id
> - too many leave events may be sent if a barrier applies to multiple
>   devices
> I've got patches here that fix this, but they're not quite finished yet.
> Either way, that's a narrow use-case and it will be fixed before the
> release.
>

Reviewed-by: Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre at mecheye.net>


> Many thanks to Jasper St. Pierre, who did most of the legwork here. And of
> course Chris Halse-Rogers who started with this feature quite a while ago.
>
> Cheers,
>   Peter
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  Jasper
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