Odd behavior with damage events and override-redirect windows

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Tue Jul 17 09:11:32 PDT 2012


On 7/16/12 5:27 PM, Jess VanDerwalker wrote:

> This works correctly for non-override redirect windows. But something
> odd occurs with window flagged as override redirect. In that case, the
> coordinates for the window are root relative, not window relative. As
> an example, if the override redirect window is mapped with x=10, y=10,
> width=100, height=100 the first damage event (which is a complete
> drawing of the window) would report a damage area of x=10, y=10,
> width=100, height=100.

I've seen a couple of bugs that I think could be related.  If you can 
reproduce this without a compositing manager, I'd be interested to know 
whether either or both of:

a) an X server started with '-extension Composite'
b) an X server built with --disable-composite

do _not_ have this bug.

- ajax



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