Hi, On 17 May 2011 08:29, Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 07:22:29PM -0700, Lorinc Hever wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have question about ButtonPress, ButtonRelease release propagation. >> >> FVWM version 2.5.1 > > Get a newer version (2.6.1). > >> We have a mouse and a trackball attached to our system. We have >> applications interested in processing the trackball event in a special >> way so it's interested in the ButtonPress and ButtonRelease events. >> >> We found that in add_window.c fvwm unconditionally turns of the event >> propagation of these events >> >> attributes.do_not_propagate_mask = ButtonPressMask | ButtonReleaseMask; >> XChangeWindowAttributes(dpy, FW_W(fw), valuemask, &attributes); >> >> Could you help us what's the reason behind it? And what consequences >> it might have if we remove this limitation? > > It comes from TWM, actually. I suppose it's there so that we don't pass a > button click to the window would if the window somehow disappears at this > point. > > You'll need to be a lot more specific as to what it is you're trying to do.
What became of this, if anything? -- Thomas Adam
