On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 16:40:57 +0200 Benoît-Pierre Demaine <ben...@demaine.info> said:
> Hello. I am not going to stay subscribed to this ML after my issue is > solved. > > Using E17 since ... almost 17 or 18y ? and I had always set it to select > window under the pointer. Always worked fine, whatever the monitor count. > > Since my last installation (december 2021) there is an edge case where > it does not. When I have several monitors, windows belongs to right > monitor, extended to both, covers a windows on left monitor, and move > cursor from the pure left window, to the win that covers both monitor. > > In this specific case, the larg window is selected for an instant, then > loses focus. This is ennoying because to focus the win, I can't just > move the cursor 100 pixels, I have to move it to the other monitor ... > far far far away. This prevents me using small touchpad/trackpoint for > focus change. > > Is it a bug, or a configuration issue ? How to fix ? this smells like a bug but i'd like to see a video of it to be sure. > *** > > I also happen to loose the cursor from time to time; that bug had been > existing 15y ago for window placement and window move, and a specific > feature had been added to fix it "window recovery"; the feature had been > later removed because the core code became solid enough to never let the > issue happen again. But now, I have it with the cursor: > > when monitors don't have the same size, it may happen, a few times a > day, that moving the cursor from the bigger monitor, to the smaller one, > via the "step", traps the cursor into the black zone. Never could find a > good repro; and it's pretty hard to liberate the mouse out of the > prison. But sometimes, the cursor get trapped outside of the visible > space, in the VOID. this shouldn't happen - e does set screen boundaries/limits to stop this from happening. you could try disable pointer warping/moving in focus setting sin case its a pointer warp that does it? > -- > >o_/ DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre (aka DoubleHP) http://benoit.demaine.info/ > If computing were an exact science, IT engineers would'nt have work \_o< > > "So all that's left, Is the proof that love's not only blind but deaf." > (FAKE TALES OF SAN FRANCISCO, Arctic Monkeys) > > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
