This fixes race conditions, for example when i3bar gets reconfigured
after the available outputs change. In that specific case, i3bar sends a
ConfigureWindow request (see
b5693d6fb3/i3bar/src/xcb.c (L376))
which normally is turned into a ConfigureRequest that i3 largely
ignores, only the dock client’s height is considered (see
b5693d6fb3/src/handlers.c (L390)).
Turning ConfigureWindow into ConfigureRequest is only done when the
SubstructureRedirect event mask is set, and because we temporarily
removed _all_ events from our mask, the ConfigureWindow request went
through unmodified.
This in turn lead to the i3bar client window (not its decoration frame)
being positioned at e.g. y=1304, whereas dock client windows should
always end up at x=0 y=0 within their decoration frame. The result of
the i3bar client window being out of the visible space was either a
black i3bar or graphics corruption.
This also fixes issue #1904, I think. I couldn’t reproduce issue #1904
specifically, but when i3bar is in the misconfigured state, it will
receive a VisibilityNotify event, telling i3bar that it is obscured.
This would explain why i3bar sent a SIGSTOP in issue #1904.
fixes#1904
019ae6d06c
