Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: SDL_GRAB problem

[Michel Dänzer]

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.


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