Here is a quick 5 minute hack to fix the misbehaviour of pre3 where it
clobbers events to applications without an option to turn of such a
"feature".
A more complete and sain patch will probably follow now that I can use
emacs to its full power.
--
Scott Moynes
diff -urN blackbox-0.62.0pre3/src/BaseDisplay.cc
blackbox-0.62.0pre3-no-clobber-events/src/BaseDisplay.cc
--- blackbox-0.62.0pre3/src/BaseDisplay.cc Tue Jan 8 01:48:31 2002
+++ blackbox-0.62.0pre3-no-clobber-events/src/BaseDisplay.cc Thu Jan 10 12:37:37
+2002
@@ -579,14 +579,21 @@
* Grabs a button, but also grabs the button in every possible combination with
* the keyboard lock keys, so that they do not cancel out the event.
*/
+
+/* why a window manager is clobbering events that clients want without an
+ option to turn off that "feature" is a mystery to man, woman, and beast. */
void BaseDisplay::grabButton(unsigned int button, unsigned int modifiers,
Window grab_window, Bool owner_events, unsigned int event_mask,
int pointer_mode, int keybaord_mode, Window confine_to, Cursor cursor) const
{
+ /*
for (unsigned int cnt = 0; cnt < MaskListLength; cnt++)
XGrabButton(display, button, modifiers | MaskList[cnt], grab_window,
owner_events, event_mask, pointer_mode, keybaord_mode, confine_to,
cursor);
+ */
+ XGrabButton(display, button, modifiers, grab_window, owner_events,
+ event_mask, pointer_mode, keybaord_mode, confine_to, cursor);
}
/*
* Releases the grab on a button, and ungrabs all possible combinations of the
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