Windows dragged by ghost hand :-)

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Fri Oct 24 14:20:32 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:14, DAVID BALAZIC wrote:
> (Sorry for the previous empty mail)
> 
> fedora test3 / GNOME :
> 
> Several times in GNOME I noticed , that the mouse is dragging a window,
> without me clicking any mouse button. The mouse pointer is on the title
> bar of the window that moves, it has a small + sign next to it, but no mouse
> button is pressed. As I move the mouse, the window follows. Weird ...
> If I click the left mouse button, the window is released and everything is
> normal again.
> 
> Maybe I accidentally pressed some keyboard shortcut for dragging windows ?

Known bug - 107149

I think there is some sort of race condition in the metacity code 
where it can miss a button release.

Regards,
							Owen






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