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

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

Heya,

 Sorry for the late response , was on vacation and only skimming through
my mails .

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 17:07 +0100, Sean Dynan wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> A while ago I asked this group about infuriating behaviour observed
> with Gnome's Window List (see below).

Would you please attach a full sized screenshot of a affected desktop
( with window-list on top, and bottom )

> 
> 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. 
> 

Where is the cursor placed , when clicking ( on top edge ) to select a
window ?

> 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.

Interesting .  Additionally, are the window buttons highlighted when
cursor is placed over them ?



> 
> 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. 

I suspect you may be hitting
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128206 , though highly
unlikely .

> 
> 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?

imho, i dont believe so .

Nonetheless, check if disabling "/apps/panel/global/tooltips_enabled"
key with gconf-editor helps .



> 
> 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. 
>         >
>         --
>         Ritesh Khadgaray
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Ritesh Khadgaray
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