Bug#354559: Clarification

2007-01-21 Thread Jamie Zawinski
You don't believe that, do you? I believe it is the third-best solution, if the first two I mentioned are unavailable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#354559: Clarification

2007-01-21 Thread Jiří Paleček
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:36:25 +0100, Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think you should take my word for it that this bug is *unfixable* on the xscreensaver side. Your patch will not fix it, it will just move the bug around. People have been complaining about this for literally t

Bug#354559: Clarification

2007-01-20 Thread Jamie Zawinski
I think you should take my word for it that this bug is *unfixable* on the xscreensaver side. Your patch will not fix it, it will just move the bug around. People have been complaining about this for literally ten years, and in all that time, nobody (including me) has come up with a patch

Bug#354559: Clarification

2007-01-20 Thread Jiří Paleček
tags 354559 = patch thanks Hello, to clarify the issue, please look in the documentation of Xlib. You'd find that if a client has a (keyboard or pointer) grab, the server only sends keyboard or pointer events to this client. If xscreensaver is not using any extensions or /proc/interrupts (which

Bug#354559: Clarification

2006-05-24 Thread Jiří Paleček
Hello, I think the problem is the nuke_focus thing. The problem is that if some app has keyboard grab, you cannot determine any (keyboard) user activity. Xscreensaver shouldn't do anything if some other app has grab and xscreensaver is not using xxx-server extension or /proc/interrupts. It can be