[Usability] Re: Fixing the foobar wrt fitt's law

[Benjamin Kahn <xkahn ximian com>]

On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 00:48, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > be worth it). I would love for some brave hacker to volunteer to fix
> > > this problem so we can all mouse easier at night (and during the day).
> > 
> > 	If I recall, this is a sawfish issue.  I remember a while ago a
> > discussion on the sawfish lists about how they implement edge flipping. 
> > Sawfish creates four invisible windows 1 pixel wide placed on all the
> > edges of the screen.  These windows capture the mouse click.  The only
> > way to turn them off is to run the sawfish-ui capplet and select
> > Workspaces->Edge flipping from the tree.  Unselect "Select next desktop
> > when the pointer hits screen edge" and click okay.  
> 
> Hmm, even when I disable this or switch to Oroborus I can't click on the
> top couple of pixels.

	I checked this out on a non-Ximianized machine and ... you're right; it
didn't work.  I guess this was a patch which didn't get merged into the
official gnome-core.