On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:55:17PM +1000, David Campbell wrote: > Daniel, > > If the "kill all grabs" functionality came back as an XKB action, that > wouldn't help in this situation, would it, given that CTRL-ALT-<number> > isn't working, which would seem to indicate that a synchronous grab is > used? If VT switching doesn't work due to a synchronous grab, then an > XKB action wouldn't either, would it?
That is unfortunately correct. AFAICT the only reason why this ever worked was because the kbd driver switched, not the server. > Peter Hutterer wrote: >> VT switching only works as long as the grab is asynchronous, otherwise >> events are queued up on the device for replaying and never pass through the >> XKB paths that trigger this behaviour. > Regards, > -- Dave > > Daniel Stone wrote: >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:46:12AM +0200, Maarten Maathuis wrote: >> >>> I personally wouldn't mind a kill all grabs button/key/whatever. Even >>> if you can debug a grab issue, you don't always have the time or the >>> right machine (debugging symbols and friends) to do it. >>> Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg