[Qemu-devel] Re: SDL_GRAB problem

[Sami Haahtinen <ressu@ressukka.net>]

Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 22:49, J. Mayer wrote: 
>>On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 22:03, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
>>>I agree with you, it would ease the situation if there was a tool to 
>>>ungrab X, but i don't know of any...
> 
> 
>>From the XF86Config-4 manpage, about the ServerFlags section:
> 
> Option "AllowDeactivateGrabs" "boolean"
>        This  option  enables  the use of the Ctrl+Alt+Keypad‐Divide key
>        sequence to deactivate any active  keyboard  and  mouse  grabs.
>        Default: off.

i must have missed that, that looks like a good solution. time to check 
whether my xscreensaver is new enough ;)

>> The solution I found is to relaunch qemu, grab then ungrab the
>> focus and I get my X usable. Qemu should do sthg to leave SDL in a
>> proper way when it crashes...
> 
> 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. 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.

Oh well, i'm looking forward to xouvert, somehow i have lost my faith in 
XFree86.

Regards, Sami