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darthvader

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From: The Beehive

Registered: 2013-12-14

Posts: 24

XFCE: Cursor stuck in drag'n drop mode

I have searched everywhere for a solution to this issue, lo and behold, it seems like I'm the only person in the world suffering this problem.
Everytime I run vlc and go to the about menu, then drag the cone, my cursor gets stuck in drag and drop mode. Esc doesn't help. killing vlc doesn't work either.
This only happens when I use xfce as my desktop environment, in plasma5 it works fine. The problem also persists in lxqt and openbox, but I can easily get out of it by pressing Esc.
Note this is not a touchpad issue.

System: Arch Linux 64bit Acer Laptop.

vmat

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Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 25

Re: XFCE: Cursor stuck in drag'n drop mode

Same problem here. Reproduces since spring for me on different computers.

dd0

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Registered: 2015-03-26

Posts: 2

Re: XFCE: Cursor stuck in drag'n drop mode

I had the same issue several times too.
Killing xfwm4 unstucks it but then it ruins everything else.
I tried going to another VT then starting a new xfwm4 with DISPLAY=:0 but that quits the whole session.