On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:40:29PM +0100, Gert Brinkmann wrote:
>
> Thanks for your explanation, Dominik.
>
> phew... complicated... What does "obscure" mean in window manager
> context?
Being covered by other windows or outside the screen area so that
not a single pixel can be seen.
> Checking a dictionary did not return sensefull results.
You need a better dictionary :-)
> So,
> what is the difference between "not (fully) visible" and "(partially)
> obscured"?
Fully visible = all pixels are displayed
Fully obscured = no pixel is visible
Partially obscured = some pixels are visible and some are not
> All the cases that you did describe are ok to send such an event, but
> none of these cover the situation i did mean: When moving the
> pager-screen around with at everytime completely *not* showing the page
> where mozilla is opened, mozilla should not get such an event, isn't it?
Right.
> Only if a mozilla window was not (fully) visible and at one time becomes
> more visible than before, it needs to redraw and so requires such an
> event, as i understand.
Yes. Expose events inform a window of newly visible areas.
> But Dan allready said that this might be fixed sometime. It is certainly
> of priority C, IMO. (The only thing is that this
> mouse-button-3-scrolling in the pager did arouse my interest for fvwm,
> because it gave me a totally new feeling of a real huge virtual screen.
> But there are enough other interesting things to be found in fvwm...)
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Fri Feb 28 2003 - 03:12:35 GMT