trouble with xmonad 0.3: mod-tab intermittently makes mouse clicks cease to work
I tried Xmonad 0.3 last night. I have a double-monitor setup, configured as separate screens (I used this successfully with Xmonad 0.2.) I was only using one of them, with the FullScreen layout, and a bog-standard, uncustomized, no-extensions Xmonad 0.3. Occasionally, Mod-tabbing between screens resulted in mouse clicks doing nothing -- the mouse continued to move the cursor. Cycling through the windows again with mod-tab fixed it. I can't reproduce this at will -- like I said, it's intermittent. Is anyone else facing this?
Zed Lopez
I can't reproduce this at will -- like I said, it's intermittent. Is anyone else facing this?
Yes. I've also not been able to work out exactly when it happens (and certainly not why).
gmane.xmonad.zed2323:
I tried Xmonad 0.3 last night. I have a double-monitor setup, configured as separate screens (I used this successfully with Xmonad 0.2.) I was only using one of them, with the FullScreen layout, and a bog-standard, uncustomized, no-extensions Xmonad 0.3.
Occasionally, Mod-tabbing between screens resulted in mouse clicks doing nothing -- the mouse continued to move the cursor. Cycling through the windows again with mod-tab fixed it.
mod-tab between screens? or workspaces? is this xinerama-only?
I can't reproduce this at will -- like I said, it's intermittent. Is anyone else facing this?
thanks for the report, at least. could you put in a bug tracker ticket? -- Don
Don Stewart
Occasionally, Mod-tabbing between screens resulted in mouse clicks doing nothing -- the mouse continued to move the cursor. Cycling through the windows again with mod-tab fixed it.
mod-tab between screens? or workspaces? is this xinerama-only?
Sorry for my sloppy language. mod-tab between windows, using only one screen, only one workspace. I haven't tried it without Xinerama; I don't know whether it's relevant. Tonight, I'll see if I can reliably reproduce it, and try it without Xinerama, and file a bug with what I find.
Are you running unclutter? I find that xmonad behaves strangely when unclutter has hidden the mouse pointer. "unclutter -idle 2" leads to problems with OpenOffice: it doesn't want to relinquish focus when you switch to another screen. "unclutter -grab -idle 2" leads to problems with some Gtk apps (most notably, Eclipse). They don't drop down menus from the menu bar when the mouse pointer is hidden and you hit Alt-F (say) to access the (File, in this case) menu. Kai On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:44:39PM +0000, Zed Lopez wrote:
I tried Xmonad 0.3 last night. I have a double-monitor setup, configured as separate screens (I used this successfully with Xmonad 0.2.) I was only using one of them, with the FullScreen layout, and a bog-standard, uncustomized, no-extensions Xmonad 0.3.
Occasionally, Mod-tabbing between screens resulted in mouse clicks doing nothing -- the mouse continued to move the cursor. Cycling through the windows again with mod-tab fixed it.
I can't reproduce this at will -- like I said, it's intermittent. Is anyone else facing this?
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Good points you raise, Kai. I simply run unclutter with: unclutter -idle 1 & /not/ with the -grab flag. -- Don kai:
Are you running unclutter? I find that xmonad behaves strangely when unclutter has hidden the mouse pointer.
"unclutter -idle 2" leads to problems with OpenOffice: it doesn't want to relinquish focus when you switch to another screen.
"unclutter -grab -idle 2" leads to problems with some Gtk apps (most notably, Eclipse). They don't drop down menus from the menu bar when the mouse pointer is hidden and you hit Alt-F (say) to access the (File, in this case) menu.
Kai
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:44:39PM +0000, Zed Lopez wrote:
I tried Xmonad 0.3 last night. I have a double-monitor setup, configured as separate screens (I used this successfully with Xmonad 0.2.) I was only using one of them, with the FullScreen layout, and a bog-standard, uncustomized, no-extensions Xmonad 0.3.
Occasionally, Mod-tabbing between screens resulted in mouse clicks doing nothing -- the mouse continued to move the cursor. Cycling through the windows again with mod-tab fixed it.
I can't reproduce this at will -- like I said, it's intermittent. Is anyone else facing this?
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Perhaps you could try without unclutter for a while... Kai On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:28:43AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
Good points you raise, Kai. I simply run unclutter with:
unclutter -idle 1 &
/not/ with the -grab flag.
-- Don
kai:
Are you running unclutter? I find that xmonad behaves strangely when unclutter has hidden the mouse pointer.
"unclutter -idle 2" leads to problems with OpenOffice: it doesn't want to relinquish focus when you switch to another screen.
"unclutter -grab -idle 2" leads to problems with some Gtk apps (most notably, Eclipse). They don't drop down menus from the menu bar when the mouse pointer is hidden and you hit Alt-F (say) to access the (File, in this case) menu.
Kai
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:44:39PM +0000, Zed Lopez wrote:
I tried Xmonad 0.3 last night. I have a double-monitor setup, configured as separate screens (I used this successfully with Xmonad 0.2.) I was only using one of them, with the FullScreen layout, and a bog-standard, uncustomized, no-extensions Xmonad 0.3.
Occasionally, Mod-tabbing between screens resulted in mouse clicks doing nothing -- the mouse continued to move the cursor. Cycling through the windows again with mod-tab fixed it.
I can't reproduce this at will -- like I said, it's intermittent. Is anyone else facing this?
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Kai Grossjohann
Perhaps you could try without unclutter for a while...
Kai
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:28:43AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
Good points you raise, Kai. I simply run unclutter with:
unclutter -idle 1 &
/not/ with the -grab flag.
-- Don
Usually I run it with: unclutter -reset -root & And it works pretty well. - Xiao-Yong PS, sorry for the duplicate. I forgot to cc the list. -- c/* __o/* <\ * (__ */\ <
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:22:07PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Are you running unclutter? I find that xmonad behaves strangely when unclutter has hidden the mouse pointer.
"unclutter -idle 2" leads to problems with OpenOffice: it doesn't want to relinquish focus when you switch to another screen.
"unclutter -grab -idle 2" leads to problems with some Gtk apps (most notably, Eclipse). They don't drop down menus from the menu bar when the mouse pointer is hidden and you hit Alt-F (say) to access the (File, in this case) menu.
Hi Kay, as I said before I think there are some issues in the way unclutter behaves without the -grab option: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2007-August/001938.html In that message I also point to a small utility I wrote to substitute unclutter (I've been using it since then without any problem). Could you give it a try a tell me if your problems persist? Thanks Andrea
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