On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 16:48 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Also, I believe this causes problems for various programs that want
> to draw to the Xserver while the screen may be locked, like a Flash
> video in Firefox. Grabbing the server long enough for programs like
> firefox to timeout and error, would leave the user's session in an
> awkward state. Grabbing the server is not, I think, just an issue with
> a11y.
isn't that really just an application bug, and a performance-sucking one
at that? shouldn't flash stop drawing when the window is obscured?
on the other hand is there any possibility that the compositing manager
X extensions could provide an escape here (by getting in the way of
every application *other* than the trusted path's access to the screen?)
- Bill
