Heya, Sorry for the late response , was on vacation and only skimming throughmy 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 awindow ? > 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 whencursor 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 hittinghttp://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128206 , though highlyunlikely . > > 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 <khadgaray@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:35 +0000, Sean Dynan wrote:> > On 2/6/07, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray@xxxxxxxxx> 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 Khadgarayॐ मणि पद्मे हूँLinuX N StuffPh: +919970164885Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. _______________________________________________gnome-list mailing listgnome-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
