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From: mac@trantor.harris-atd.com (Mike McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XGrabPointer and ButtonPress
Message-ID: <1484@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Date: 13 Feb 89 23:23:05 GMT
References: <1481@trantor.harris-atd.com> <2664@daisy.UUCP>
Reply-To: mac@trantor.harris-atd.com (Mike McDonald)
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In article <2664@daisy.UUCP> klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) writes:
>In article <1481@trantor.harris-atd.com> mac@trantor.harris-atd.com (Mike McDonald) writes:
>>X Protocol error:  BadAccess, attempt to access private resource denied
>
>The protocol error indicates that another client has already grabbed the
>pointer.  Is that possible?  Does the window manager have it?  We do the
>same sort of thing, with an XGrabPointer after the ButtonPress event, and
>it works fine for us.
>
>Ken Lee
>-- 
>klee@daisy.uucp
>Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.


  I was explicitly not running a window manager to avoid that problem. I have
two xterms running and that's it.


  Mike McDonald

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