Re: evince crashes the X server

2025-07-10 Thread Steven J Abner
On Thu, Jul 10 2025 at 01:33:12 PM +, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: "imprecise_trapezoid_span_converter" I used other than google. If this helps these are only references I found: http://v6.mirror.yandex.ru/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-10/xsrc/external/mit/xf86-video-intel/dist/src/sna/sna_trapezoi

Re: MappingNotify Events

2025-06-18 Thread Steven J Abner
On Tue, Jun 17 2025 at 11:22:30 PM +, Steven J Abner wrote: Or is it obvious that prior to run loop I create a XMappingEvent to send with XRefreshKeyboardMapping(), with flush? This is definitely not the solution! It solves the MappingNotify only to replace with a need for one to handle

Re: MappingNotify Events

2025-06-17 Thread Steven J Abner
On Mon, Jun 16 2025 at 11:14:01 AM +, Steven J Abner wrote: I include this because I don't know if I'm screwing up. It appears that I don't know the pre/post-function, or bit, to set keyboard has been accessed prior to or after I make calls to cached the keyboard data.

MappingNotify Events

2025-06-16 Thread Steven J Abner
I'm receiving this signal and uncertain how to handle. The application starts up on a bare x server. I do call, on start up, xcb_get_keyboard_mapping_reply() and xcb_get_keyboard_mapping_keysyms() to read codes for responding to key events. The information from documentation says I get the eve

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-13 Thread Steven J Abner
On Fri, Jun 13 2025 at 08:48:16 PM +, Vasily wrote: Or just continue to support X11 and adjust it for modern needs. Which is mush easy for my opinion. Hard enough dealing with window managers that partially follow protocols, and send signals that you just gotta say 'huh?' through one ser

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-11 Thread Steven J Abner
On Wed, Jun 11 2025 at 05:30:48 PM +, Carsten Haitzler wrote: wayland is a PROTOCOL From this conversation, trying to understand. So: X protocol => X11 => aplications and wayland protocol => wlroots? => compositor/windowmanager => application where compositor is wayland's term for window

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-06-07 Thread Steven J Abner
On Sun, Jun 8 2025 at 12:23:46 AM +, Felipe Contreras wrote: A single statement from a few developers would do much more to dispel those beliefs Personally I'm working on an extension that I hope will get adopted by Xorg. If not I'm hoping other developers could at least adapt my code to

Re: Move a window

2025-05-31 Thread Steven J Abner
On Sat, May 31 2025 at 05:14:33 PM +, Carsten Haitzler wrote: what is your problem? You should know how valuable and appreciated your reply is! I think the problem is my thinking! I wanted to support Ubuntu's window manager, but more importantly is that that application run on all Linux

Re: Move a window

2025-05-31 Thread Steven J Abner
On Sat, May 31 2025 at 05:14:33 PM +, Carsten Haitzler wrote: well you never said what you WANTED to achieve In my original post: And on the 3 tested this 'grab' won't work. It has confines placed on it from moving past edges or 'STRUT's where cursor gets separated from drag point (mouse

Re: Move a window

2025-05-31 Thread Steven J Abner
other non-gnome type managers, it may work? It's from the EWMH protocols. Steve /* * Move window demo * Steven J Abner 2025 */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define OVERRIDE 1 #define PER_ICCCM 0 #if PER_ICCCM #undef OVERRIDE #define

Re: Move a window

2025-05-30 Thread Steven J Abner
Forgot, Click in window to execute move. Press any key to quit.

Move a window

2025-05-30 Thread Steven J Abner
or 'STRUT's where cursor gets separated from drag point (mouse location). PS freedesktop link from EWMH doesn't work, not that the managers follow, and I don't expect a reply from stack exchange. Steve /* * Move window demo * Steven J Abner 2025 */ #include #include

Re: Segmentation Fault vmware / vgahw

2025-05-22 Thread Steven J Abner
On Thu, May 22 2025 at 07:18:02 PM +, Doug Kehn wrote: [34.672] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) Spitballing it but maybe check with VMWare and see if you need drivers from https://www.x.org/archive//individual/driver/ like maybe the nouveau or fbdev of t

Re: Segmentation Fault vmware / vgahw

2025-05-22 Thread Steven J Abner
On Thu, May 22 2025 at 10:53:23 PM +, Doug Kehn wrote: It's NVIDIA. Then not the AMD driver issue :)

Re: Segmentation Fault vmware / vgahw

2025-05-22 Thread Steven J Abner
On Thu, May 22 2025 at 07:18:02 PM +, Doug Kehn wrote: Current Operating System: Linux archlinux-DESKTOP-IPGM1GV 6.14.6 Not an expert, but by any chance your video is AMD? I had recent issue with kernels greater or equal to 6.3. It wasn't the "fbdev" but started there. Failed to start wa

xf86-video amd

2025-05-01 Thread Steven J Abner
Just built a X Server and trying to configure. Needed raw building/testing environment for dealing with window managers' interloping. Unfortunately I can't find info or way to resolve my question so... on an AMD 2400g Raven Ridge, to firmware "Raven", I wish to verify my Xorg.0.log is correct.

Re: Issue Accessing Kali Linux – Blue Screen on Boot

2025-04-17 Thread Steven J Abner
On Wed, Apr 16 2025 at 06:30:46 PM +, Drake Derek wrote: it gets stuck on a blue screen and does not proceed to the desktop environment I'm not an x.org expert, but my first question is if blue screen, are you overclocking or is your ram in correct slot? I got that condition on very cold

Re: scroll lock disabled by default

2024-07-25 Thread Steven J Abner
Just so you know someone read you, I'll take a stab at the question. Mind you I haven't used Windows since Windows 3. If I had to guess, Windows doesn't have Scroll Lock on by default. I believe arrow keys still work. After the purchase of Excel, they continued the old IBM of utilizing the fun

Re: events, mouse button 2 possible bug?

2024-07-10 Thread Steven J Abner
On Wed, Jul 10 2024 at 04:06:51 PM +, Julian Bradfield wrote: as expected. Thank you for your time! After you said window manager, gears turned. I ran a test on a notebook, simulated but creates button 2 event, and another OS on this computer. I got the same results as you. So definitel

Re: events, mouse button 2 possible bug?

2024-07-10 Thread Steven J Abner
On Wed, Jul 10 2024 at 02:10:15 PM +, Julian Bradfield wrote: You haven't given anything like enough information. However, what I suspect this means is that some other client, such as a window manager, has a passive grab on the button, so when you pressed the button, the other client grabbed

events, mouse button 2 possible bug?

2024-07-10 Thread Steven J Abner
Hello, I am new to xlib/xcb and started off (not knowing any better) with gdk/gtk3. So created the event loop but in the handling of events I came upon an oddity. I wrote xcb, no response, so assume this is a bug because of response. The event sequence for button 2 mouse press: window 83886080,