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2007-11-29matchbox-applet-inputmanager 0.6: Implement smart IM visibility protocol.Paul Sokolovsky1
* One of the very noticeable pain points in matchbox' IM handling is high latency of IM popping up, which can take up to half-second with complex screen layouts. This is rooted in the fact that IM process is killed when IM window is hidden, and started again afterwards. * I wanted to address this on inputmanager level, transparently to actual IM implementation, by hiding/showing IM's window by the manager. Unfortunately, there appears to be no reliable method to figure out window IDs from process properties (for example, _MB_CLIENT_EXEC_MAP X property, maintained by matcbox, doesm't capture all apps started, in particular, it captures neither xkbd nor matchbox-keyboard, GPE's term app is not caught too, while either GPE apps are). Then, wanted to implement custom PropertyNotify-based protocol, though there would be left issue of distinguishing IMs which support this protocol and ones which don't. Finally, by random gerpping, I found that xkbd supports Unix signal based visibility protocol! By receiving SIGUSR1, it hides/shows its window. This seems like 100% win, as the default behavior for SIGUSR1 is process termination, so unsupporting clients will be just terminated as before.
2006-11-11matchbox-applet-inputmanager: clean upKoen Kooi1
2006-11-11mb-applet-inputmanager: apply patch from Phil Blundell to pop up input ↵Koen Kooi4
method on focus * requires libgtkinput to be loaded * see http://www.nabble.com/libgtkinput-t971843.html * this also brings mbinputmgr-tray.c in sync with o-hand svn rev 1163