Re: 1.7.1 - problem with moving mouse programmatically with xte
Hi, Is there any plan to fix this in the future? Note that I did am not writing code for xte, I am just using it. Radu On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote: On 16/02/2010 20:04, Radu Berinde wrote: It's unfortunate that this problem hasn't been fixed and Cygwin/X 1.7 is now part of the stable distribution. It's even more unfortunate that there's no way (none I could find anyway) to install the older version which worked for me. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Radu Berinderadu.beri...@gmail.com wrote: I am using Cygwin/X 1.7.1 and I am running applications on this X server from a Slackware virtual machine. I am using xte v1.03 to move the mouse using keyboard shortcuts. Using ion3 as the window manager. When running e.g. # xte 'mousermove +250 0' the mouse cursor should move to the right; indeed, the window manager changes focus as if moved to the right, but the cursor doesn't visibly move. When mouse is moved, movement continues from the visible location (the xte movement is 'forgot'). This is an interesting and obscure use case. :-) The reason this doesn't work as expected seem to be this [1] upstream change. This prevents cursor moves inserted via XTEST from getting propagated to the native cursor. I'd be interested to know if this works with X server 1.7.x on any platform, I'd suspect possibly not. Using XWarpCursor() should move the native cursor correctly, so you might be able to use that instead? [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dfb7de6571345061d1cd88ab915064fc376529fd -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: 1.7.1 - problem with moving mouse programmatically with xte
On 16/02/2010 20:04, Radu Berinde wrote: It's unfortunate that this problem hasn't been fixed and Cygwin/X 1.7 is now part of the stable distribution. It's even more unfortunate that there's no way (none I could find anyway) to install the older version which worked for me. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Radu Berinderadu.beri...@gmail.com wrote: I am using Cygwin/X 1.7.1 and I am running applications on this X server from a Slackware virtual machine. I am using xte v1.03 to move the mouse using keyboard shortcuts. Using ion3 as the window manager. When running e.g. # xte 'mousermove +250 0' the mouse cursor should move to the right; indeed, the window manager changes focus as if moved to the right, but the cursor doesn't visibly move. When mouse is moved, movement continues from the visible location (the xte movement is 'forgot'). This is an interesting and obscure use case. :-) The reason this doesn't work as expected seem to be this [1] upstream change. This prevents cursor moves inserted via XTEST from getting propagated to the native cursor. I'd be interested to know if this works with X server 1.7.x on any platform, I'd suspect possibly not. Using XWarpCursor() should move the native cursor correctly, so you might be able to use that instead? [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dfb7de6571345061d1cd88ab915064fc376529fd -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: 1.7.1 - problem with moving mouse programmatically with xte
It's unfortunate that this problem hasn't been fixed and Cygwin/X 1.7 is now part of the stable distribution. It's even more unfortunate that there's no way (none I could find anyway) to install the older version which worked for me. Radu On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Radu Berinde radu.beri...@gmail.com wrote: I am using Cygwin/X 1.7.1 and I am running applications on this X server from a Slackware virtual machine. I am using xte v1.03 to move the mouse using keyboard shortcuts. Using ion3 as the window manager. When running e.g. # xte 'mousermove +250 0' the mouse cursor should move to the right; indeed, the window manager changes focus as if moved to the right, but the cursor doesn't visibly move. When mouse is moved, movement continues from the visible location (the xte movement is 'forgot'). I am starting the X server with this command (inside startx.bat file which is ran with bin/run.exe) XWin -ac -clipboard -silent-dup-error Note that the exact thing works perfectly with the stable 1.5 version. Hope this helps identify a problem. Thank you for developing Cygwin/X. Best, Radu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
1.7.1 - problem with moving mouse programmatically with xte
I am using Cygwin/X 1.7.1 and I am running applications on this X server from a Slackware virtual machine. I am using xte v1.03 to move the mouse using keyboard shortcuts. Using ion3 as the window manager. When running e.g. # xte 'mousermove +250 0' the mouse cursor should move to the right; indeed, the window manager changes focus as if moved to the right, but the cursor doesn't visibly move. When mouse is moved, movement continues from the visible location (the xte movement is 'forgot'). I am starting the X server with this command (inside startx.bat file which is ran with bin/run.exe) XWin -ac -clipboard -silent-dup-error Note that the exact thing works perfectly with the stable 1.5 version. Hope this helps identify a problem. Thank you for developing Cygwin/X. Best, Radu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
