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Getting error when in fullscreen games or in dropdown menus: "Failed to grab cursor after 5 tries, giving up" #37

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Goosegit11 opened this issue Aug 4, 2023 · 1 comment
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Getting error when in fullscreen games or in dropdown menus: "Failed to grab cursor after 5 tries, giving up" #37

Goosegit11 opened this issue Aug 4, 2023 · 1 comment

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Goosegit11 commented Aug 4, 2023 •
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See this issue for explanation: naelstrof/maim#283

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9ary commented Aug 4, 2023

Unfortunately this is not a bug, but a technical limitation. Dropdown menus and games request exclusive control of the cursor (they "grab" the cursor), but tools like hacksaw and slop (which maim uses as a library) also need to do this. Even without grabbing the cursor in hacksaw, we wouldn't be able to get any input while something else is holding a grab, so there is no way to fix this.

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