Bug 84014 - Pointer locking protocol
Summary: Pointer locking protocol
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Wayland
Classification: Unclassified
Component: wayland (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Wayland bug list
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Depends on: 85715
Blocks: 84644
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Reported: 2014-09-17 19:38 UTC by Jonas Ådahl
Modified: 2018-06-04 08:26 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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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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