From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: SDL_GRAB problem
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:23:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1079648588.13245.56.camel@thor.asgaard.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3bbo3$8iv$1@sea.gmane.org>
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 06:23, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> > Strictly speaking, it may be an X server bug that the grab persists
> > when the client goes away.
>
> When you think it through, it does appear so. Why would an application
> that doesn't exist need grab.
I can't think of a reason, but specs don't always follow reason. ;)
> Although i don't know the full mechanism behind grab, so it might be that
> there is some reason why this hasn't been fixed.
IIRC the spec does define grabs to expire when the client goes away, but
I don't know offhand where this is defined.
> Oh well, i'm looking forward to xouvert, somehow i have lost my faith in
> XFree86.
You're not alone. Unfortunately, xouvert looked quite dead already last
time I checked. Fortunately, there's a lot going on over at
http://freedesktop.org/Software/Home .
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 12:18, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> Now, excuse for the completely offtopic Q: Once every year or so
> my Xemacs looses sync with the Xserver.. usually there is some
> message suggesting xlib lost some reply or got an unexpected one.
> Is there any way to revive the app in such a case?
Not sure, but I'm afraid not - error recovery isn't exactly a strength of
Xlib and most of its applications.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-18 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-17 20:14 [Qemu-devel] SDL_GRAB problem Richard Zidlicky
2004-03-17 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] " Sami Haahtinen
2004-03-17 21:49 ` J. Mayer
2004-03-18 0:35 ` Michel Dänzer
2004-03-18 5:23 ` Sami Haahtinen
2004-03-18 22:23 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2004-03-18 11:18 ` Richard Zidlicky
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