Bug 84014

Summary:	Pointer locking protocol
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	Jonas Ådahl <jadahl>
Component:	wayland	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	anakin.cs, bordjukov, jjardon, kparal, simon, xavierb
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:	85715
Bug Blocks:	84644

Description Jonas Ådahl 2014-09-17 19:38:18 UTC

There needs to be way for a client to lock the pointer to its window. A common use case is 3D games where the pointer is used control the viewport in a 3D space.

An RFC inspired by the corresponding W3C API was made in Februaray 2013: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-February/007635.html

Comment 1 Jonas Ådahl 2014-09-17 19:41:28 UTC

A follow up to the previous RFC posted here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-September/017318.html

Comment 2 Pekka Paalanen 2014-11-01 08:47:11 UTC

I'm adding a depends-on to bug 85715 because that report raises an interesting question: with high-resolution, high-rate mice, can we still use wl_fixed_t for the relative motion events, or can it be too imprecise leading slow motion to be rounded to zero?

Comment 3 Jonas Ådahl 2016-09-21 08:17:08 UTC

An unstable protocol (pointer constraints) was released as part of wayland-protocols 1.1. Weston 1.12 includes support. I'll leave this one open until there is a stable protocol added.

Comment 4 Daniel Stone 2018-06-04 08:26:00 UTC

At this point we can probably close it ... :)

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