[Bug 6971] Mouse "escapes" window or is confined to an area in the full screen program

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971

--- Comment #69 from Vitaliy Margolen   2008-03-14 19:34:18 ---
(In reply to comment #68)
> using events device would be linux specific, the bug would still remain for
> freebsd, solaris, etc etc.

Correct, so the only available options is getting these events from the X
server (pretty much where Wine gets them now).

But the problem with that - it's the absolute coords of the pointer (not the
actual mouse movements). These coordinates don't change if the pointer on the
edge of the screen and doesn't move past it. While mouse can still move.

Which means Wine have to get actual hardware mouse events from X server. The
only way to do that is via XInput extension. However core pointer and core
keyboard can not be opened this way.