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From: ken@hpcvlo.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Okay, you X'ers, how the he...
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Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 13:29:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 19 13:29:21 1987
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Sounds like you are really complaining about uwm resorting to modified
button events to do its business.  This complaint has been brought up
before.  Note that this is really not a generic X problem but a window
manager design problem.

One strategy that has been used by some people (and is present in the
HP version of uwm) is to allow uwm to recognize interesting events that
are only interesting in the root context.  Thus if left button down is
only specified to uwm as a root window context event then uwm will not
steal the left button from the applications (like xterm).  This allows
you to move the mouse to the root window to perform uwm functions and
hold your 7-up/coffee/juice (I use yogi tea) in your left hand.  I am
willing to send the five uwm files modified to those who need them. I
modified the Xv10r4 release of uwm.  I have only tried it out on my HP
equipment.

Also I have just recently been notified of one bug in the modified
uwm.  If an application tries to read only button up events, then the
application does not see anything.  Applications trying to read up and
down events or just down events work like a champ.  If you have the
modified version and have found/fixed this bug please send me mail.
Otherwise I am going to fix it in the immediate future.

Also I am swamped at work,  so I hope I do NOT get swamped with
requests.  Have some patience with another poor working X hacker.

				-Ken Bronstein
				 hp-pcd!ken