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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:35 +0000, Sean Dynan wrote: > > On 2/6/07, Ritesh Khadgaray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Ritesh Khadgaray ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919970164885 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
