Re: [wmii] Floating SDL window

On 10/7/07, Pontus Andersson <a.pontus_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> It seems that the new snap have problems with floating windows that use
> the SDL library. I don't know if it's wmii:s or SDL:s fault, but I
> thought I'd report it anyway.
> The problem is that wmii can't focus on the client, and thus no input
> can be targeted to the client. This worked on the previous 20050516-snap.
> I traced it, and found out that the following if-statement in the
> focus_client() function, in client.c, didn't succeed, when moving the
> mouse over the window. (Although, it got a FocusFloating event)
>
> if((c == nil || !c->noinput) && screen->focus != c) {
>
> So I compared it to the old snap, and noticed that the corresponding
> if-statement only had this expression
>
> if(screen->focus != c) {
>
> I changed it to see if this "solved" the problem, and indeed it did. But
> as I understand it, this 'noinput' value is derived from a WM_HINT
> property, which makes me a bit unsure, whether this really is wmii:s
> "fault". Anyhow, I guess that someone here knows this better, and
> hopefully figure it out.
>
> The SDL apps used, was: frozen-bubble, xmoto.

 This is the same issue affecting dosbox. Maybe we should just ignore
the noinput hint...
-sqweek
Received on Sun Oct 07 2007 - 15:56:34 UTC