Re: [wmx] New tarball, and some questions

"cannam" <cannam@all-day-breakfast.com> writes:
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> Right, I think we're getting a few too many "here's my own release,
> sorry no patch" tarballs -- Henri's GNOME+group code, Sven's multihead
> stuff et al.  So I've attempted to merge them and tidy things up a bit.
> 
>   http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wmx/wmx-6pre2.tar.gz
> 
> This tarball contains wmx-6pre1+gnome+group from Henri, wmx-6mh1 from
> SvOlli, Lasse's keyboard-menu tweak, an 8-bit-charset-clean Rotated.[Ch],
> my own channel-button patch and a new thing of mine that attempts to
> make the circulation order a bit more useful (as per recent discussion;
> see below for more).
> 
> If you guys are still working on the bits that interest you, please
> could you use this release as a base and post patches against this?
> It'd make things much simpler for everyone else.  Similarly, if you're
> the author of one of the things mentioned above, or if you've put
> forward another patch that should be in here, please test whether it
> works in the above tarball and post a fix if it doesn't.
> 
> Now, problems that I'm having with this version:
> 
> (1) I think the keyboard menu is now broken; when I try to use it,
> which I don't normally, it hangs wmx.  Maybe one of the patches has
> interacted badly with another one, or maybe I've applied something
> wrong.  Please could someone who uses and/or understands the
> keyboard menu test and fix?
> 
> (2) The circulation-order code works like this: If you circulate
> (using Alt-Tab) repeatedly, without releasing Alt in between, then
> you get the same circulation order as before; but every time you
> release Alt, the order reverses.  So if you always release Alt
> between circulation attempts, you'll always flip between the top
> two windows; if you circulate through and then release Alt and
> circulate again, you'll see the same windows in the reverse order.
> 
> I don't know whether this is "ideal", but I like it a bit better
> than before.  BUT there is a big problem with the implementation:
> Because we now want to grab KeyPress and KeyRelease events
> for the Alt key as well as for other keys that use Alt as modifier,
> we now need to know which keysym Alt uses as well as which modifier
> it is.  That means you need to code Alt twice in Config.h (as
> CONFIG_ALT_KEY_MASK and CONFIG_ALT_KEY_SYM) and the circulation
> code will only work if the two happen to correspond to the same
> key.  Obviously this is pretty grim; can anyone suggest a fix?
> 
> (I guess 6pre3 will happen when both of the above problems have
> been resolved.)
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> Chris
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