wrap workspace feature oddities

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Fri Oct 22 10:00:33 CEST 2004


On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:24:11AM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi brian,
> 
> On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 15:40 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > what about putting the input-only windows a single layer below the panel?
> > IIRC, if you have the panel always-on-top, it's layer 10.  could the
> > input-only windows be layer 9 without any other bad effects?
> 
> Layer don't apply to the override redirect windows. Plus these override
> redirect windows are precisely there to detect when the mouse reaches an
> edge, putting them under any client windows would make them useless
> (this technique has been implemented precisely because people where
> complaining that the edge detection was not working in all cases...)
> 

I'm still wondering why the panel doesn't pick up the mouse event though,
because it's more than 1 pixel. Oh, wait, it loses the mouse again when
the pointer is over the input-only-window. Hmm, I don't think that can be
solved then...

	Jasper



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