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Click-to-focus on frame border sticks in resize-window mode
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RESOLVED: FIXED

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Description Gary Lawrence Murphy 2006-02-16 15:23:19 CET
Xfwm is set to focus-follows-mouse and click-to-raise.  When clicking on the
frame of a window, the clicked window will raise, but a window-geometry chicklet
is displayed in the middle of the window, the mouse remains in the horizontal
arrow icon and no keystrokes are sent to the window; very often, any mouse
motion in this state will resize the window, even though the mouse button was
not held down, it was only clicked.

Sometimes I do get the desired behaviour and the focus is set to the
frame-clicked window, but most often I have to click /inside/ the window to set
the focus.  It also appears to be particularly bad with gnome-terminal and
nearly always happens with the new GNU Emacs GTK-ui support; the bug also happen
with Firefox and with the Xfce utilities like the XFTerminal or XFfm but it
almost never happens clicking to focus on efax-gtk.

The bug does not appear to be load related.

This is xfwm4 version 4.2.1 for Xfce 4.2.1
        built with GTK+-2.6.4, linked with GTK+-2.6.4.

running on a 700MHz Dell Dimension with Mandrake Linux 10.2

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. xfwm set to click-to-raise and focus-follows-mouse
2. click the side or bottom frame of GNU Emacs/GTK or gnome-terminal


Actual Results:  
mouse remains in resize-mode, window geometry appears in the chicklet,
keystrokes are discarded; keystrokes _may_ sometimes go to the application which
previously had the focus, but this is very rare and cannot be reproduced on demand.


Expected Results:  
selected window should raise and gain desktop focus.  Subsequent keystrokes
should be passed to the managed application.
Comment 1 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2006-02-16 20:27:00 CET
Yes, it's a known problem. What is unknown is why.
Comment 2 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2006-03-10 21:47:47 CET
Should be fixed in SVN.

Bug #1467

Reported by:
Gary Lawrence Murphy
Reported on: 2006-02-16
Last modified on: 2009-07-14

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Olivier Fourdan
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