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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Review Request 114841: Screenlocker: don't set the mouse cursor when grabbing the mouse
From:       Martin_Gräßlin <mgraesslin () kde ! org>
Date:       2014-01-07 8:51:55
Message-ID: 20140107085155.7621.62188 () probe ! kde ! org
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how does that behave with the normal locker (that is no screensaver)?

- Martin Gräßlin


On Jan. 5, 2014, 9:55 a.m., Wolfgang Bauer wrote:
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> Review request for kde-workspace and Martin Gräßlin.
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> Bugs: 311571 and 316459
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311571
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316459
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> Repository: kde-workspace
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> Description
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> Setting the cursor to ArrowCursor when calling XGrabPointer() prevents the Screen \
> savers from blanking the mouse cursor. 
> I don't know why this has been done in the first place, but I couldn't see any \
> negative effect by setting it to None. Now the mouse cursor even changes to the \
> IBeam again when over the password field, which I find more intuitive. 
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> Diffs
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> ksmserver/screenlocker/ksldapp.cpp f0526cf 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/114841/diff/
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> Testing
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> Configure a Screen saver in systemsettings and wait for it to kick in (or lock the \
> screen manually). Previously (since 4.10) the mouse cursor stayed visible, now it \
> is blanked like it was the case before 4.10. Moving the mouse/pressing a key (to \
> quit the Screen saver) makes the mouse cursor appear again as it should, regardless \
> of whether the screen is locked or not. 
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> Thanks,
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> Wolfgang Bauer
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 <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: \
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with the normal locker (that is no screensaver)?</pre>  <br />









<p>- Martin Gräßlin</p>


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<div>Review request for kde-workspace and Martin Gräßlin.</div>
<div>By Wolfgang Bauer.</div>


<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated Jan. 5, 2014, 9:55 a.m.</i></p>







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 <b style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Bugs: </b>


 <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311571">311571</a>, 

 <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316459">316459</a>


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 <b style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt;">Repository: </b>
kde-workspace
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;">Setting the cursor to ArrowCursor when calling XGrabPointer() prevents \
the Screen savers from blanking the mouse cursor.

I don&#39;t know why this has been done in the first place, but I couldn&#39;t see \
any negative effect by setting it to None. Now the mouse cursor even changes to the \
IBeam again when over the password field, which I find more intuitive.</pre>  </td>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Testing </h1>
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-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;">Configure a Screen saver in systemsettings and wait for it to kick in \
(or lock the screen manually). Previously (since 4.10) the mouse cursor stayed \
visible, now it is blanked like it was the case before 4.10. Moving the \
mouse/pressing a key (to quit the Screen saver) makes the mouse cursor appear again \
as it should, regardless of whether the screen is locked or not.</pre>  </td>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> </h1>
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 <li>ksmserver/screenlocker/ksldapp.cpp <span style="color: \
grey">(f0526cf)</span></li>

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