[openbox] mouse wrap to other side of screen

John Russell drjimmy42 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 18 02:09:32 EST 2004


Ok, so I gave this mouse warping thing a shot.  Attached is a rough
patch which steals gratuitously from Mikael's small edgeswitch program. 
There is some stuff in the XCreateWindow function and attribute_set
stuff which I'm not sure is necessary or not, but I left it there
because it works.  

I also had to edit the event_ignore function so that EnterNotify events
would make their way down to the mouse_event function where I thought
this behavior belonged.  I'm sure that the event_ignore function is
there for a reason and I'm not sure if I overstepped my bounds by
futzing with it.  

Also, this is clearly behavior that some people would like and some
would find truly offensive.  I'll look into how ob does options and see
if I can't get this in to rc.xml or something.  

Please let me know what you think of this.

Also, while this experience did motivate me to start sifting through the
ob code, I have to go back to something I said a while ago.  There are
absolutely no comments in this code.  I mean there is the odd /* don't
remove this */ or something, but not that much.  

When I brought this up last time, Ben told me to submit patches with
comments in them.  Well, here's one.  Also let this serve as an
impassioned plea to ob hackers.  If you find yourself in the code for
whatever reason, and think that you know what the function you are in
does, please please please write a little one sentence blurb at the top
of the function with some helpful tips and the basic idea of what is
going on.  It might make the barrier to entry a little lower for the odd
person who's been wanting to help out, but can't figure out what the
#$@#$@ is going on.  Global scope kills me.  I'm a long time java
wheenie so I'm used to knowing where a function came from.  Anyway,
thanks in advance.  Hope you like the patch.  

Thanks for the great WM.

Sincerely,
John 

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 09:16, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, John Russell wrote:
> > 
> > > What I meant was, I'm using xinerama and my _desktop_ is very wide as it
> > > is spread across 2 monitors.  I wanted to know of a way to have the
> > > mouse wrap from one side of one monitor all the way to the other side of
> > > my desktop.  I hope that is clearer.
> > > 
> > > John
> > > 
> > 
> > Try this, and give -w and -h for width and height since i dont know the
> > proper xinerama calls. and yes, i had a similar program lying around :)
> 
> And you can remove the north and south windows if you want to save a few 
> bytes of memory
> 
> --
> Mikael Magnusson




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