Re: _NET_WM_USER_TIME reconsidered

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Bill Haneman wrote:
> For instance, if a switch device (not associated with XInput or 
> emulating a mouse button) is used to drive an onscreen keyboard like 
> GOK; or if a braille "keyboard" (which doesn't connect to the XServer as 
> a keyboard, but has its own unique serial interface) is used to focus a 
> GUI component or popup a window.  OR if the result of interacting with 
> such devices causes an app to post a new window via AtkAction.  From the 
> user's perspective, s/he has made a device request, but the XServer 
> doesn't see these devices as standard keyboards or mice (or even 
> extended XInput devices).
Probably the simplest solution that would mostly work would be to just 
cause a property notify in order to get a timestamp from the X server, 
then use that timestamp. There's a function people have been 
cut-and-pasting around for this, I just saw it in libgunique, I think 
it's in metacity and gtk also.
Havoc