Re: [dev] please test slock tip

From: Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:57:56 +0100

On 9 February 2012 20:51, Eckehard Berns <ecki-suckless_AT_ecki.to> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 08:19:35PM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
>> On 9 February 2012 19:50, Eckehard Berns <ecki-suckless_AT_ecki.to> wrote:
>> > $ ./slock & ( sleep 1 ; st )
>> >
>> > will show a terminal window on top of the black slock window. Not that I
>> > could use the terminal, but it's shown.
>>
>> Not for me, I can't reproduce this.
>
> Hmm, maybe my 64bit system again?
>
> I tried several things to get this working. First, on my system slock
> would not see any event besides KeyPress/KeyRelease (and mybe mouse
> movement - didn't test), then after explicitly requesting a
> VisibilityChangeMask, slock worked until I restarted xcompmgr again
> (stopped it for testing purposes). Now I added a call to
>
> XSelectInput(dpy, lock->root, SubstructureNotifyMask);
>
> That did work for me every time (with and without xcompmgr, no further
> changes to slock.c required).

Ok, I must admit I don't use xcompmgr. Nevertheless selecting for
SubstructureNotifyMask makes sense and I applied a fix accordingly.
Does vanilla hg tip works for you now?

Cheers,
Anselm
Received on Thu Feb 09 2012 - 20:57:56 CET