X Windows problem

Mike A. Harris mharris at redhat.com
Sun Sep 14 06:58:11 UTC 2003


On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Andre Robatino wrote:

>  Starting with the XFree86-4.3.0-25 updates, there is an annoying bug that
>affects dragging windows.  Often, when I click on a window menu bar to drag
>it, it won't move.  When I click on it again, then it will move.  If I click
>on the menu bar once and it doesn't move, if I move the mouse pointer
>somewhere else and click again, the window suddenly jumps to the new
>location.
>  I tried downgrading to the 4.3.0-24 packages and the problem persisted.
>The newer 4.3.0-29 packages haven't helped either.  Could the original
>Xfree86-4.3.0-25 packages have caused some configuration change that has to
>be fixed manually?
>
>I don't know much about the internals of X Windows so I'm not
>sure what package to file a bug report under.  (XFree86 or one of the
>associated XFree86 packages?)

This most likely has nothing to do with XFree86 or any change in 
XFree86.  If you install 4.3.0-2 from RHL 9 you will likely 
encounter the same problem.

It's more likely to be a window manager bug or other problem 
outside of the X11 realm.


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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat





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