From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 05:37:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD6B316A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 05:37:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from pip.lemonia.org (82-32-25-136.cable.ubr04.azte.blueyonder.co.uk [82.32.25.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B5443FE1 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 05:37:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lemon@aldigital.co.uk) Received: (qmail 12958 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2003 13:39:16 -0000 Received: from maybe.avalon (HELO aldigital.co.uk) (192.168.237.3) by yes.avalon with SMTP; 25 Nov 2003 13:39:16 -0000 Message-ID: <3FC35B18.7020704@aldigital.co.uk> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:37:28 +0000 From: lemon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031008 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org References: <1064695326.71020.8.camel@jake> <1064708263.1134.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1064716398.93823.29.camel@hood.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: windows wander X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:37:26 -0000 Randy Bush wrote (some time ago): >>I had this issue of windows moving around when you click on the workspace >>pager *with Sawfish running* today too. It made Sawfish with virtual >>desktops absolutely unusable. I haven't investigated it much and reverted >>back to Metacity. The move of the window depended on where you clicked in >>the pager. When you clicked to the top left corner of the workspace on >>pager, the windows were almost ok. The more down and right you click, the >>windows are more displaced. > > > you're right, it's just clicking in the pager, using fn keys to get > between workspaces is non-damaging. whew! thanks for hint. > (i've already mailed randy about this, but thought i'd resend here too). this bug is discussed at the pager/libwnck maintainer has submitted a comprehensive patch in the first [0], and there's a suggestion for quick hack in the second. i can confirm the second works. my patch was: $ diff work/libwnck-2.4.0.1/libwnck/pager.c work-/libwnck-2.4.0.1/libwnck/pager.c 1157a1158 > #ifdef WANDER_FIX 1159a1161 > #endif /* WANDER_FIX */ ie: don't let wnck_pager_button_release run wnck_screen_move_viewport regards, l. [not sub'd to this list, please CC] [0]