Re: [AD] SF.net SVN: alleg:[13184] allegro/branches/4.9

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2010-04-03, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On April 3, 2010, Peter Wang wrote:
> > On 2010-04-03, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On April 3, 2010, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > > Milan's description sounded like the window is indeed frameless, and
> > > > positioned somewhere (I assumed at 0,0 but Milan will have to
> > > > confirm) but the *viewport* is not initially at 0,0.
> > > 
> > > As far as I know, that isn't possible. I mean I could tell XRandR to
> > > move the display's absolute positions, but that would likely mess
> > > things up, and since the window is created at the display's own
> > > origin, it CAN'T be wrong. Or somehow the driver is moving the origin
> > > when a mode is set, which makes no sense.
> > 
> > Another data point:
> > 
> > nvidia-driver-180.51
> > xorg-server 1.6.3
> > 
> > * ex_fs_resize set the screen mode correctly both times, but the panel
> >   (taskbar) at the top of the screen remains visible, with the Allegro
> >   window just underneath.  The mouse cursor is trapped in the Allego
> >   window.  If I alt-tab away I can't regain focus in the Allegro window.
> >   The window manager is IceWM.
> 
> Yeah, I haven't figured out how to fully force an ALWAYS ON TOP flag. I 
> tried with the set_above method, but it doesn't seem to work.

Any reason to use _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE instead of
_NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN?  Not that the latter worked on this machine
either.

> have to look into the alt tabbing though.. technically it grabbed the mouse, 
> so it really shouldn't have alt-tab'ed away, no place for the mouse to go.
> 
> Could try just skipping the GrabMouse and see what that does. Theres no 
> virtual res scrolling with these mode sets afaik, so grabbing the mouse may 
> not be needed, unless you want to make sure the mouse can't move to a 
> another monitor just by moving it.

Indeed, XGrabPointer seems to be unnecessary with randr (unlike xf86vm)
and I don't think we should prevent the user alt-tabbing away if that's
what they want to do.

Peter