xserver 1.6 branch and mouse position zapping

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 24/12/08 02:11 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi,
> 
> Just built the 1.6 branch + recent mesa snapshot and other such stuff.
> 
> It seems to be stable enough just now, but one thing that's been 
> affected is how the mouse positions itself to top-left after a certain 
> operations.
> 
> So far I've found odd behaviour when doing:
>   * Compiz cube dragging (ctrl+alt+click and drag)
>   * Compiz window moving (alt+click and drag)
>   * Compiz window moving (click and drag on title bar)
> 
> When this happens the mouse just jumps to the top left, but not always 
> immediately.
> 
> While this could easily be a compiz issue (I certainly cannot reproduce 
> in metacity), I'm guessing it's related to the xserver change. I have 
> also updated to the latest input-proto and other such stuff too.
> 
> Is there an obvious starting point to look further into this? Or perhaps 
> it's a known issue?

I'm thinking that there is *something* up with mouse moves generally. 
Simple things like hovering the mouse over a link in firefox is also a 
bit odd. Hard to describe really but it seems that the "hover" event (in 
web/js event terminology) only happens when the mouse is actually 
*moving* not when it's just settled over the link.

Of course this could be unrelated :)

Col



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