1.7.1 - problem with moving mouse programmatically with xte

[Jon TURNEY]

On 16/02/2010 20:04, Radu Berinde wrote:
> It's unfortunate that this problem hasn't been fixed and Cygwin/X 1.7
> is now part of the stable distribution.
>
> It's even more unfortunate that there's no way (none I could find
> anyway) to install the older version which worked for me.
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Radu Berinde<radu.berinde@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I am using Cygwin/X 1.7.1 and I am running applications on this X
>> server from a Slackware virtual machine.
>>
>> I am using xte v1.03 to move the mouse using keyboard shortcuts. Using
>> ion3 as the window manager.
>>
>> When running e.g.
>> # xte 'mousermove +250 0'
>> the mouse cursor should move to the right; indeed, the window manager
>> changes focus as if moved to the right, but the cursor doesn't visibly
>> move. When mouse is moved, movement continues from the visible
>> location (the xte movement is 'forgot').

This is an interesting and obscure use case. :-)

The reason this doesn't work as expected seem to be this [1] upstream change.

This prevents cursor moves inserted via XTEST from getting propagated to the 
native cursor.

I'd be interested to know if this works with X server 1.7.x on any platform, 
I'd suspect possibly not.

Using XWarpCursor() should move the native cursor correctly, so you might be 
able to use that instead?

[1] 
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dfb7de6571345061d1cd88ab915064fc376529fd

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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