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 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').
>
> 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
>

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