[PATCH xwayland] xwayland: Always update the wl_pointer cursor on pointer focus

[Keith Packard]

Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com> writes:

> Sure, if relying on mipointer doing this is fine then why not.

Yeah, there are lots of places where the original API design from 1987
doesn't make much sense in 2015. Who would have thought?

> I'd still need to add the 'invalidate' state to mipointer.c here though
> (see below).

Someone needs to deal with this, but once you've escaped DIX, you have
complete control in your driver.

> then the other option I see is to add work-arounds to xwayland
> (meaning we'd duplicate cursor sprite tracking in xwayland, and then
> "force update" whenever we need).

Feel free to do whatever you like in Xwayland; there are often
driver-specific hacks like this needed as you know.

-- 
-keith
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