In send_wm_take_focus() in lowlevel/__init__.py, we pass "time" into the pyrex
code where it gets used to initialize a signed 32-bit XClientMessageEvent data.
This value comes from the X server time, which is 32-bit unsigned. On my
system (xvfb from X.org 1.9.0 on a 32-bit system) my server time is a value
that does not fit in a 32-bit signed quantity and so Python raises an overflow
error.
The ICCCM documentation glosses over this problem. I poked around for other C
implementations and I _think_ that people just usually cast the uint32 to the
long. The attached patch does that in python (which isn't easy, but this is a
known idiom) and fixes the problem. Perhaps this should be in pyx code....
Original issue reported on code.google.com by mefisk@gmail.com on 18 Jun 2011 at 4:21
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