Problem:
When using a bigger screen than the actual screensize and you tab to frames. Ion sets
the pointer to the upper left corner of a frame. If a frame is just right out of the
current visible area, X will scroll only a few pixels right to make the pointer
visible, thats not enough to see the frames content.
Solution:
in ioncore/focus.c:do_move_pointer_to the Pointer is wrapped to the upper/left
position of the frame, i changed the code in the way that it wraps three times to let
X do the scrolling right:
void do_move_pointer_to(WRegion *reg)
{
....
/* first go to the lower/right corner */
XWarpPointer(wglobal.dpy, None, root, 0, 0, 0, 0,
x+w, y+h);
/* then to the upper/left, now X has scrolled or frame to be as much visible
as possible with a preference to the upper/left corner */
XWarpPointer(wglobal.dpy, None, root, 0, 0, 0, 0,
x, y);
/* the orginal code gave the pointer a +5 offset*/
XWarpPointer(wglobal.dpy, None, root, 0, 0, 0, 0,
x+5, y+5);
/*btw. instead of a static offset, calculating the border thickness+1 would be
more nice or? (placing the mouse over the tab, no matter how thick the borders are*/
}
As far i can think of this change doesn't impair any problems and won't be noticeable
if one does not use virtual screens. Maybe there is some other X API to scroll virtual
screens, but this change is quite minimal and doesn't need any extensions. Please
consider to apply it into the main code.
Cheers Christian
