On 12 Jul 2009, at 08:00, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > When I use a desktop environment generally I don't like to have to > precision pin-point the mouse cursor to activate menu items etc. > When running the GNOME Desktop with Compiz effects disabled, I > simply jam the mouse cursor at the top left or very top of the > screen to access the "Applications", "Places", "System" menus, and > Panel items etc. > > If however, I switch Visual Effects to "Normal", this behaviour > changes ever so slightly...It's as if a one pixel row at the very > top of the screen no longer reacts to mouse input, so I have to > correct my action by positioning the mouse down a teeny bit to > launch a panel item, or access the aforementioned menus. > > Bizarrely, things behave as per normal when Visual Effects is set to > "Extra".
Sounds like a window manager issue, then -- "normal" mode uses an entirely different window manager (Metacity) from the other three modes (Compiz). Please do file the bug. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
