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Bug 142057 - Metacity inappropriately goes into window move mode on loaded system
Metacity inappropriately goes into window move mode on loaded system
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 136587
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other FreeBSD
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-05-07 00:47 UTC by Andrew Reilly
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.5/2.6


Description Andrew Reilly 2004-05-07 00:47:26 UTC 
Switch to or from a busy window (Firefox is often a good candidate, but
evolution is good for business too), either with alt-tab or a mouse click on the
title bar.  Sometimes (certainly not always: unfortunately I don't have a recipe
to provoke the problem on demand) either the switched-to window (or perhaps the
switched-from, with alt-tab?) will inappropriately go into "move" mode (cursor
is small cross).  Of course that means that the next mouse movement will move
the window, rather than reposition the cursor somewhere over the window.  This
usually happens when I'm working hard, switching from window to window and
tweaking things in several (overlapping) windows.  It feels like a timing/race
sort of problem.  Could be related to the xterm opening bug that I'm about to
submit against metacity...
Comment 1 Andrew Reilly 2004-05-07 02:23:05 UTC 
I've done a little more investigation and have found that I can provoke this
inappropriate switch into "move mode" with single, very short, clicks on the
title bar of any window, even when the system isn't particularly busy.  Well, I
have a song playing in the background, using about 5% of my P-III/500, but
that's all.  I can do this fairly reliably.  The window does not have to be the
one on top, either: it can be partially obscured, although this does also raise
clicked-on window.  Another click will leave move mode.
Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2004-05-07 02:45:16 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report.  To be more precise, this bug occurs when the click
and release happen within the same millisecond.  This has been fixed in
metacity-2.8.1, released just recently.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 136587 ***