reverting keyboard grab to root window - invoking several dmenu's now works again...

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index 29b313b..0f07773 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ drawmenu(void) {
 
 static void
 grabkeyboard(void) {
-        while(XGrabKeyboard(dpy, win, True, GrabModeAsync,
+        while(XGrabKeyboard(dpy, root, True, GrabModeAsync,
                          GrabModeAsync, CurrentTime) != GrabSuccess)
                 usleep(1000);
 }
@@ -454,6 +454,24 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                 eprint("dmenu: cannot open display\n");
         screen = DefaultScreen(dpy);
         root = RootWindow(dpy, screen);
+        if(isatty(STDIN_FILENO)) {
+                maxname = readstdin();
+                grabkeyboard();
+        }
+        else { /* prevent keypress loss */
+                grabkeyboard();
+                maxname = readstdin();
+        }
+        /* init modifier map */
+        modmap = XGetModifierMapping(dpy);
+        for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
+                for (j = 0; j < modmap->max_keypermod; j++) {
+                        if(modmap->modifiermap[i * modmap->max_keypermod + j]
+                        == XKeysymToKeycode(dpy, XK_Num_Lock))
+                                numlockmask = (1 << i);
+                }
+        }
+        XFreeModifiermap(modmap);
         /* style */
         dc.norm[ColBG] = initcolor(normbg);
         dc.norm[ColFG] = initcolor(normfg);
@@ -477,27 +495,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         XSetLineAttributes(dpy, dc.gc, 1, LineSolid, CapButt, JoinMiter);
         if(!dc.font.set)
                 XSetFont(dpy, dc.gc, dc.font.xfont->fid);
-        drawmenu();
-        XMapRaised(dpy, win);
-        XMaskEvent(dpy, ExposureMask, &ev);
-        drawmenu();
-        if(isatty(STDIN_FILENO)) {
-                maxname = readstdin();
-                grabkeyboard();
-        }
-        else { /* prevent keypress loss */
-                grabkeyboard();
-                maxname = readstdin();
-        }
-        /* init modifier map */
-        modmap = XGetModifierMapping(dpy);
-        for(i = 0; i < 8; i++)
-                for(j = 0; j < modmap->max_keypermod; j++) {
-                        if(modmap->modifiermap[i * modmap->max_keypermod + j]
-                        == XKeysymToKeycode(dpy, XK_Num_Lock))
-                                numlockmask = (1 << i);
-                }
-        XFreeModifiermap(modmap);
         if(maxname)
                 cmdw = textw(maxname);
         if(cmdw > mw / 3)
@@ -508,6 +505,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                 promptw = mw / 5;
         text[0] = 0;
         match(text);
+        XMapRaised(dpy, win);
         drawmenu();
         XSync(dpy, False);
 
@@ -519,6 +517,10 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                 case KeyPress:
                         kpress(&ev.xkey);
                         break;
+                case Expose:
+                        if(ev.xexpose.count == 0)
+                                drawmenu();
+                        break;
                 }
 
         /* cleanup */