On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:24:53 -0700 "Suraj N. Kurapati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > > In wmii-3.1, it is possible to overload libixp with lots of 9P > > traffic, maintained _continuously_ for about a minute, such that it > > freezes. > > Okay, I've finally managed to figure it out. :-) > > > There is one major difference between how wmii-3.1 and wmii-4 handle > a read of /event: > > wmii-4 simply returns the next event and closes the read request. > > wmii-3.1 returns the next event, closes the read request, and > continues to send new events as they occur (even though the request > was already closed). > > > Now, because wmii-4 does not continually stream events to you (even > after the read request was finished), there is a possibility that > you may miss out on events. That is, when you (1) read an event, (2) > process it, and (3) read another event, you may have missed new > events that occurred while you were processing the old one. > > But maybe that isn't such a big deal (humans cannot generate > key-presses fast enough to cause events to be missed). Ah! That's it! What a luck that someone found this one that drove me completely crazy already! Humans might not generate key events fast enough, but mouse events are lost /regularly./ It happens often enough that the mouse cursor ends up over a window that is not focused after moving the mouse. OMG please fix :O
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