Input issues with CompositeOverlayWindow

[Rémi Cardona]

Hi all,

I've been hired by INRIA [1] to work on Metisse [2] which some of you 
may already know from last year's FOSDEM [3].

As part of my work, I've decided to "port" metisse to current xorg 
extensions, including composite but I'm running into some input related 
issues right now.

I'm trying to use the CompositeOverlayWindow to render stuff but I can't 
get any input from it. All the clicks and keyboard events go right 
through the overlay directly to the underlying windows. The same code 
behaves as expected if I use XCreateSimpleWindow.

I tried using various combinations of XFixesSetWindowShapeRegion, 
XMapRaised, XMoveResizeWindow (for the sake of it), to no avail. I tried 
comparing with compiz and KWin and I don't even know if they actually 
get input from the overlay or if they want the clicks and key presses to 
go through.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

[1] http://www.inria.fr/index.en.html
[2] http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/
[3] http://archive.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/events/crossdesktop_metisse

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Rémi Cardona
LRI, Université Paris-Sud
cardona at lri.fr
remi at gentoo.org