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Progress

Posted Jul 23, 2004 22:27 UTC (Fri) by Tcler (subscriber, #5919)
In reply to: Progress by Ross
Parent article: X at OLS

Wouldn't it be nice to have timeouts or a "revoke" key binding to cancel server grabs so applications can't lock up the server?

The "revoke" key binding has been in XFree86 since 4.2 (see the AllowDeactivateGrabs and AllowClosedownGrabs options in the XF86Config man page). Starting with XFree86 4.4 (and I believe X.Org too), you can change which keys those functions (and others such as the KillServer function usually bound to Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc) are bound to.

More than two-color cursors exist now but are incredibly poorly documented.

Complain to Keith about that one.


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