Re: Window List panel - irritating behavior (clicks ignored)

["Sean Dynan" <seandynan bigfoot com>]

Hi all

A while ago I asked this group about infuriating behaviour observed with Gnome's Window List (see below).

My original Gnome desktop config was out-of-the-box CentOS, namely: a panel along the top of the screen and another along the bottom. The top panel contained the main apps menu, quicklaunch icons, clock etc. The bottom panel only contained the Window List.

Today I embedded the Window List applet in the top panel and removed the bottom panel altogether. Now I only have a single panel, containing all menus, launchers, clock and Window List, along the top of the screen.

And the problem of ignored mouse-clicks seems to have gone away. Or at least they are alleviated enough as to no longer be noticeable.

If I embed a Window List in a panel at the bottom of the screen (or relocate my top panel to the bottom of the screen) the problem comes back.

Could it be something to do with tooltips trying to pop up just as I'm about to click on a Window in the Window List?

Anyway, this might jog someone's memory out there.

Bye now.
-- 
Sean Dynan

On 06/02/07, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com> wrote:

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:35 +0000, Sean Dynan wrote:
> On 2/6/07, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 14:01 +0000, Sean Dynan wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > We use CentOS 4.4 in our development shop and those of us running
> > > Gnome suffer really irritating behavior from our Window List panels
> > > (version 2.8.1).
> > >
> > > 9 times out of 10, when an application icon is clicked in the Window
> > > List, the mouse click fails to bring the application to the
> > > foreground. Mousing over the icon highlights the icon okay, but

Probably the mouse event is not being captured , or the mouse click is
not over the application icon.

metacity might be helpful here to trace where the clicks are being
focused, afaik.


> > > clicking on it very rarely activates the app. If we click 'more
> > > slowly' then the problem isn't exhibited. But we find it hard to
> > > believe the Window List panel is missing 'fast' mouse click events.
> > how fast is fast , and how slow is slow ?
> > As humanely as possible, i could reproduce this 10/10 times.
>
> Slow == maybe half a second.
> Fast == as fast as possible. You know the kind of thing: when you're
> whizzing around the UI and you're rapidly clicking on widgets. That
> sort of 'fast'.
>
> My best stab-in-the-dark guess is that there is a slight mouse motion
> detected as well as the click and the UI interprets that as an attempt
> to move the icon off the panel. So it is ignored.
>
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