thank you for finally speaking this out loud On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 21:58, Lasse Kärkkäinen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Once XGrabPointer() is called, the WM loses control not only of the mouse > but also of the keyboard. Although there are situations where applications > may require extended keyboard control as well (e.g. virtual machines and > remote desktops), XGrabPointer is extensively used by games and other > applications that simply require extended mouse control. think of a flash movie playing in full screen.. ANY keypress event would break the full screen experience here.. > One option to consider is adopting the Super key as a general WM > accelerator key as an alternative to Alt. Since it is generally not used by > any application software, keeping it to the WM would work rather well. > +1 > Another thing to consider is that most WM shortcuts should indeed be > disabled for games. For example, Alt+drag is commonly used in RTS games for > giving orders but currently that doesn't work without grabbing because the > WM thinks that one is trying to move the window. > yes, this is extremely disturbing with creative applications such as blender. > So, can this problem finally be fixed, so that maybe 2011 would be the year > of the Linux Desktop :-) hope, pray, contribute ;) already 2010 could be the year of FLOSS
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