Yes that indeed happens, and now that you say it I noted that it's pretty annoying. I also miss the "raise on mouse-over-while-dragging" feature in metacity (very much like the MS Windows behavior). I can't remember that click+alt+tab ever worked however. On 11/29/06, Santanu Chatterjee <thisissantanu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > Could you please suggest a workaround to the following > problem? > > Problem in gist: > In recent GNOME releases, 'Alt+Tab' does not seem to work > when any mouse button is pressed. > > Let me explain the problem I am facing due to this: > > Suppose I intend to play a group of ogg files I have opened in > a nautilus window. > > Suppose the desktop is so cluttered that I am hardly seeing the > totem window open somewhere in the Desktop. > > So I select the group of files with my mouse, drag them a little > but not enough to take them away from the nautilus window, > but since I cannot view the totem window, I cannot drop them > directly onto totem. > > So, while holding down the mouse button, I use 'Alt+Tab' to > cycle to totem, and once totem is visible, I release the mouse > button on totem, so that the totem playlist is populated with > the selected files. Problem solved. > > However, with Fedora 6, Ubuntu Edgy, etc. that have the latest > GNOME, I cannot follow the above technique. > This is because when I select a group of files/folders in nautilus, > and start dragging them, 'Alt + Tab' becomes ineffective until > I release the mouse. But it used to work in my earlier Debian Sarge > installation. > > I verified this problem even on my Dapper machine at > University as well. > > I think this is a GNOME related issue. > Could you please verify if this occurs on your installation too? > If so, I would be very grateful if you could suggest any workaround. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Santanu > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > -- "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" -Ghandi http://diego.aureal.com.pe | http://diegoe.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
