Re: Window List panel - irritating behavior (clicks ignored)

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 <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.
>
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