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 ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919822394463 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway.
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