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Apewall
January 13th, 2012, 06:53 PM
Clicking in the top header area of a non focused window causes your mouse to grab the window and then move it, as if you were using ALT+Click as is default in XFCE.

I'm not sure this is even an intended feature, but it is very annoying, especially on programs like Chromium where there is no border drawn by the window manager for you to click.

Anyone know how to disable this, or is this a bug, I've dug in the XFCE documentation but found NOTHING about it.

wkrekik
January 13th, 2012, 08:48 PM
Strange.
Have you tried to delete some configuration folders (~/.cache ~/.config/Thunar ~/.config/xfce4 ~/.config/xfce4-session). Of course back-up them before deleting.

Apewall
January 13th, 2012, 09:24 PM
Strange.
Have you tried to delete some configuration folders (~/.cache ~/.config/Thunar ~/.config/xfce4 ~/.config/xfce4-session). Of course back-up them before deleting.

Yes, this seems to be the default behavior at least on xubuntu 11.10

It also does this on 3 separate machines. I forgot to note that this only occurs on windows that do not currently have focus, edited to reflect this in my original post.

Krovas
May 3rd, 2012, 10:22 PM
Does anybody know a cure for this behavior? It is intensely irritating.

malv83
May 20th, 2012, 01:55 PM
I have this problem as well with Xubuntu 12.04.

rai4shu2
May 20th, 2012, 08:58 PM
Could you describe what the problem is in more detail? I'm having some difficulty understanding what's going wrong precisely.

GrandTheft
May 23rd, 2012, 09:14 PM
I am having the same problem, too.

Description: (example) resize window to fill 90% of screen height, 50% width, click on middle of window, window jumps to the lower right corner of the screen (with mouse pointer attached), sometimes moving it to adjacent desktop.

Dunno what caused it, didnt happen before. :confused:

best regards,
gt

anaconda
May 23rd, 2012, 11:43 PM
i am having this problem too.

Extremely annoying with touchpad on my asus eeepc.
It is sometimes difficult to release the grapped window.

dont really know what I do when it happens.

anyone have a fix?

rai4shu2
May 24th, 2012, 12:55 AM
I don't think anyone can fix what they can't observe. Sorry.

Record it and post it on Youtube if you can't describe it better than that.

jadtech
May 24th, 2012, 03:08 AM
i cant replicate this what so ever on this HP g6 running 12.04 wireless mouse or touch pad

morgengenuss
June 1st, 2012, 12:40 AM
Unfortunately I'm aware of this problem. I thought I fixed it when I switched off window-moving by grabbing the toolbar in Greybird. I guess I'll have to investigate this further.

Please file a bug on launchpad for it, ideally against shimmer-themes so we can track it properly there.

neptvn
June 2nd, 2012, 05:22 PM
I've managed to reproduce this problem (just gedit) and recorded it for those who don't understand what's happening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir2IDxFKBFA

From description:

When I click and release the header of the window (not the title bar, but below it == same height as the menu) and afterwards click and release anywhere inside the window the cursor grabs the window and moves it at the slightest mouse movement without holding any button.

jejeman
June 14th, 2012, 10:47 AM
When I click and release the header of the window (not the title bar, but below it == same height as the menu) and afterwards click and release anywhere inside the window the cursor grabs the window and moves it at the slightest mouse movement without holding any button. Exactly, same here.
Ubuntu Studio 12.04. Xfce.

Where is the bug report?

malv83
June 16th, 2012, 07:29 AM
Exactly, same here.
Ubuntu Studio 12.04. Xfce.

Where is the bug report?


The reported the bug here since it seems to be a GTK3+ app related bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1001936

Be sure to mark that you're affected so they hopefully fix it soon. It's an intensely annoying rage-inducing bug.

rai4shu2
June 17th, 2012, 01:06 PM
Interesting. It looks like we're seeing two different issues:

#1: Clicking anywhere in the menu-box causes the window to drag the same as if you had clicked on the title portion of the window.

#2: GTK 3 apps move to the lower right corner of the screen if you click drag on the menu box, then click on another area in the client portion of the window (the window moves immediately after you begin the first mouse move after you click in the blank area of the window).

GrandTheft
September 7th, 2012, 08:14 AM
anyone found a fix for this in the meantime?

Elfy
September 7th, 2012, 12:37 PM
Are you completely updated - there was an apparent fix released a while back.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfwm4/+bug/1001936

neptvn
September 10th, 2012, 02:51 PM
I am completely updated and I'm still having the bug, using Xubuntu 12.04 with Xfce 4.10 from this PPA (https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.10). Am I missing something? Should I apply the patch from here (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfwm4/4.10.0-2ubuntu1) myself? If so, could someone help me out?

Thanks.

Ovocean
November 14th, 2012, 09:25 PM
I am completely updated and I'm still having the bug, using Xubuntu 12.04 with Xfce 4.10 from this PPA (https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.10). Am I missing something? Should I apply the patch from here (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfwm4/4.10.0-2ubuntu1) myself? If so, could someone help me out?

Thanks.Coming late but since your question was unanswered: no you're not missing anything, the version in the PPA isn't patched. If you really can't wait you can ask the PPA maintainer to update xfwm (or compile it yourself =).