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From: jne@goldhill.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Debugging while server grabs are present.
Message-ID: <8910111453.AA01073@godzilla.goldhill.com>
Date: 11 Oct 89 14:53:03 GMT
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In article <126096@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, turnpike!argv@sun.com writes:
>  And this idea is more X-specific altho I realizes the chances of the
>  idea being implemented.  I'd like to specify a timeout value for the
>  -server- so that if the server grab hasn't been released by the timeout,
>  the server releases the grab automatically.  This can't be a client-side
>  function because the client may not be running.  Of course, this would
>  imply a change/addition to the X protocol, which as I understand it,
>  will not be modified ever.

Rather than a timeout value, I'd rather have a "magical" keystroke that
releases server/pointer grabs.  If my client hangs and I am running
standalone (so I can't rlogin to kill X), then I have to reboot the
machine (a Sun/3 I'm talking about) in order to get keyboard/mouse
contol back.  This does not go over very well in front of potential
customers.

Jeff Eisen
Gold Hill Computers
617-621-3404
jne@goldhill.com