On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:40:29PM +0100, Gert Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your explanation, Dominik.
> 
> phew... complicated... What does "obscure" mean in window manager 
> context?

Being covered by other windows or outside the screen area so that
not a single pixel can be seen.

> Checking a dictionary did not return sensefull results.

You need a better dictionary :-)

> So, 
> what is the difference between "not (fully) visible" and "(partially) 
> obscured"?

Fully visible      = all pixels are displayed
Fully obscured     = no pixel is visible
Partially obscured = some pixels are visible and some are not

> All the cases that you did describe are ok to send such an event, but 
> none of these cover the situation i did mean: When moving the 
> pager-screen around with at everytime completely *not* showing the page 
> where mozilla is opened, mozilla should not get such an event, isn't it? 

Right.

> Only if a mozilla window was not (fully) visible and at one time becomes 
> more visible than before, it needs to redraw and so requires such an 
> event, as i understand.

Yes.  Expose events inform a window of newly visible areas.

> But Dan allready said that this might be fixed sometime. It is certainly 
> of priority C, IMO. (The only thing is that this 
> mouse-button-3-scrolling in the pager did arouse my interest for fvwm, 
> because it gave me a totally new feeling of a real huge virtual screen. 
> But there are enough other interesting things to be found in fvwm...)

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^
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