Potential approach to EnterNotify problem in window manager

2015-10-22 Thread Ingo Bürk
Hi guys, at the i3 window manager, we have a separate system bar application (i3bar), which is not integrated into the window manager. It can be hidden and only be shown upon keypress. This causes the problem that if the user puts their pointer "away" in some corner, then shows the bar for a seco

Re: Potential approach to EnterNotify problem in window manager

2015-10-22 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2015 22:17:28 CEST, Ingo Bürk wrote: This causes the problem that if the user puts their pointer "away" in some corner, then shows the bar for a second and then hides it again, X11 generates LeaveNotify for i3bar and EnterNotify for whichever window is underneath the p

Re: Potential approach to EnterNotify problem in window manager

2015-10-22 Thread Ingo Bürk
Hi Thomas, thank you for your reply! > KWin FFM has a general pointer position comparism. Yeah, I guess that's one way to do it, but seems like a lot of trouble to go through. > You could add a hinting property to the i3bar or just compare class > and type properties to know that this is the i3b