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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: ButtonRelease
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Date: 18 Jan 89 21:14:33 GMT
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    Protocol question: when a button press occurs and no client can be found to
    receive a ButtonPress, what is supposed to happen to the corresponding
    ButtonRelease?

It should still be treated as a normal event.

    What happens with Xsun (R2 and R3) is that even when a client can be found
    for the ButtonRelease (i.e. the release occurred when the pointer was in a
    window which selected for ButtonRelease), no ButtonRelease event is ever
    sent.

I don't think so.  It works just fine for me.  Are you sure you aren't running
a window manager that's selection for button events on the root window?