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zmyx

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Registered: 2009-11-05

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can't use mouse cursor to select windows buttons from XFCE panel

The problem is weird but the behaviour is as follow: let say I have sultiple copies of the same software (Firefox, for instance) or when the software has multiple windows (for example Pidgin main windows and its other chat windows). Wwhen I try to click on the windows button on the panel in order to navigate to the window of such software, it won't work. nothing would happen. On the other hand, Alt+Tab works for switching to the desired windows. However, if the software only has one window running (for example, only one Firefox window) then the mouse click would work.

It's a strange behaviour and I got this on both my PC which runs Arch 64 bit and my laptops with Arch.

Anyone has the same problem?

gnidam

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2006-07-23

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Re: can't use mouse cursor to select windows buttons from XFCE panel

Same problem here. In my case it's three gvim windows - not selectable via panel, only via ALT-TAB. Still have to figure out what's going on...

Inxsible

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Re: can't use mouse cursor to select windows buttons from XFCE panel

Do you have conky running -- maybe that's covering the panel and eating up the mouse click events. Try killing conky and see if it works.

There is a specific conky variable that needs to be set -- but I fail to remember what that is now

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gnidam

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Re: can't use mouse cursor to select windows buttons from XFCE panel

Do you have conky running -- maybe that's covering the panel and eating up the mouse click events. Try killing conky and see if it works.

Nope, thx Inxsible but conky's not running here.

Right-click menu (minimize, maximize, etc...) works for each of the multiple entries, though.
I just tried recompiling xfce4-panel 4.8.2-1 with no apparent error message or any change in behaviour... hm...

[Edit] It seems like a bug's already been filed: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7383

Last edited by gnidam (2011-03-09 17:40:46)

tesjo

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Registered: 2007-11-30

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Re: can't use mouse cursor to select windows buttons from XFCE panel

Patch is now available in comment #3 of previously listed xfce bug report. I built xfce4-panel with this patch for 32bit and it indeed resolved the issue.

gnidam

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2006-07-23

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Re: can't use mouse cursor to select windows buttons from XFCE panel

Patch is now available in comment #3 of previously listed xfce bug report. I built xfce4-panel with this patch for 32bit and it indeed resolved the issue.

Same here (32bit) - patch resolves the issue.

Last edited by gnidam (2011-03-19 16:34:49)