making xstroke recognize full-screen: (was: Re: [Opie] Re: newbie)

On Dec 13, Philip Blundell wrote:
> Conversely, a lot of people complain that with some applications it can
> be very hard to find an area of the screen that xstroke will actually
> let you write in. It would be neat if there was some way to put xstroke
> into a mode where it did recognition on all windows.

There always has been:

        xstroke -noauto

(yes, this command-line option has an extremely obscure name)

xstroke originally did recognition everywhere, then I added an
"auto-disable" so that it would automatically disable itself on
windows that it thought didn't want recognition.

That experiment was a failure as xstroke guesses wrong far too often,
and when it does the results are disastrous, (as you mention).

The next release of xstroke will recognize everywhere by default
and will only disable recognition if a window specifically requests
that no recognition be performed on it.

-Carl

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Received on Tue Dec 17 2002 - 21:31:24 EST