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Re: Removing the `window-id' frame parameter on non-Core Input platforms


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Removing the `window-id' frame parameter on non-Core Input platforms
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 11:35:24 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> The problem is that XInput2 touch support was designed to assume that a
> single client owns a window and all its children.  Introducing another
> process and therefore client into the window hierarchy causes all kinds
> of race conditions when two processes try to take ownership of the same
> touch sequence at once, and so on and so forth.

Maybe we should deprecate it, then.  I have used this frame parameter in
scripts that pass it to external applications in order to record
a video, tho, so I'm not sure what we should replace it with.


        Stefan




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