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From: mbr@aoa.UUCP (Mark Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: ICCCM and colormaps---simple question
Message-ID: <1171@aoa.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 90 19:13:15 GMT
References: <9002151215.AA02926@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Reply-To: mbr@aoa (Mark Rosenthal)
Organization: Adaptive Optics assoc., Cambridge, Ma
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In article <9002151215.AA02926@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse) writes:
)From the Xlib doc
)file in the R4 distribution:
)
)	Multiple clients can select input on the same window. ...
)	However, only one client at a time can select for
)	SubstructureRedirectMask, ResizeRedirectMask, and
)	ButtonPressMask.  If a client attempts to select any of these
)	event masks and some other client has already selected one, a
)	BadAccess error results.
)
)So yes, substructure redirection can be selected for by only one client
)at a time, as you say.  But, contrary to your implication, the same is
)true of button press events.

ButtonPressMask?????  Does this mean that if I have 3 xterms and no window
manager running, only one xterm will respond properly to button presses?
That can't be right.  Can it?
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