XFixes and XI2

[Sam Spilsbury]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Peter Hutterer
<peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 07:50:38AM +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote:
>> I'm continuing Peter Hutterer's MPX aware version of compiz and
>> extending it to all of compiz-fusion. Some of the plugins use a call
>> to XFixes to get a cursor image for the current cursor and to hide the
>> current cursor. I didn't find any documentation as to if this is
>> device-aware or not. If so, could someone tell me how to call it with
>> reference to specific devices.
>
> it is not device aware yet.
>
> with cursors, there is two settings per window
> 1. the window cursor (as defined in the core protocol)
> 2. a device-specific cursor.
>
> if 2 isn't defined for a specific device, all devices use 1. the xfixes
> requests work only on 1., so while this is appropriate for most occasions, it
> needs a device-aware implementation too.
>
> Cheers,
>  Peter
>

OK, thanks Peter. I'll have to continue using the single device
implementation for now until XFixes becomes multi-device aware.

Regards,

Sam

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Sam Spilsbury -- Developer