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Hi,
I've been using archlinux half a year so far and I've managed to survive, but since two weeks ago I've been experiencing some weird problems with drag and drop in gnome. I tried to solve the problem by googling but had no luck.
The problem is the following:
When I try to drag and drop for the first time from a nautilus window to any other application by raising that application through the window list in the gnome-panel it works perfectly (as shown in the following image)
The problem begins when I try to do the same one more time. If I drag the file in the same way, by raising the application where I want to drop from the window list in the gnome-panel, and the raised application is on top of the nautilus window where I'm dragging the file from, the file won't drop in the application, but will do it in the nautilus window, even if the destination application seems to be on top.
This picture explains what I'm saying:
As you can see, the file seems to be over the terminal, hence it should be dropped on it after releasing the mouse, but instead, the 'testFile' file goes into the 'testFolder' folder.
Finally, if I drag and drop from the nautilus window directly into the terminal, without raising the terminal from the window list in the gnome-panel, it works ok (shown in picture below)
If I restart nautilus by killing it from the system manager and trying the step in the first image, works again, and then the drag and drop stop working. This behavior started a couple of weeks ago, in both my desktop and laptop, before that it was working as intended.
BTW, this happens with any application (gedit and so).
Thanks in advance for any help you could provide me.
PS: English is my second language so my apologies for any error I may have done.
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I have the same annoying problem. I tried to downgrade some packages (nautilus, gtk2), use another window manager (xfwm4), but nothing changed. It occurs with any application, therefore it seems to be a gnome bug. Does someone have a solution?
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kwin+gnome = same problem
the bug maybe is... "focus-stealing prevention"?
I don't know.
I hope that this bug was reported in bugzilla gnome.
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I don't know if it has been reported, I don't even know if it's a bug, but the issue is still happening in my machine.
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Same here! Using gnome + compiz
Eg,
I can drag from nautilus and drop into audacious only once!
Next album I want to listen and drag & drop is not working anymore
Edit: idem rivoot:
It does work when both windows are visible. But not when I drag the files, hover over the minimized button to restore the target window and drop.
Last edited by matiasm (2010-08-01 14:43:10)
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Also, drag and dropping images from Firefox to nautilus works only once. Really annoying.
Is this already reported?
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xfce + xfwm4 = same problem
lxde + openbox = same problem
gnome + fluxbox = same problem
maybe, an Xorg bug?
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xfce + xfwm4 = same problem
lxde + openbox = same problem
gnome + fluxbox = same problemmaybe, an Xorg bug?
I doubt it's an Xorg bug. I'm guessing a "what ever terminal you use" bug or a nautilus bug.
Try the following:
Same terminal + Thunar (or something else)
New terminal + Nautilus
This way, you can locate the problem.
Last edited by cesura (2010-08-02 07:53:19)
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Try the following:
Same terminal + Thunar (or something else)
New terminal + Nautilus
first terminal + nautilus = not working
first terminal + thunar [new session] = works
second terminal + nautilus = not working
second terminal + thunar [same session] = not working
second terminal + thunar [new session] = works
after killall nautilus:
first terminal + nautilus = works only once
second terminal + nautilus = not working
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Same here. I was thinking, it's a specific software problem.
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itsbrad212 wrote:Try the following:
Same terminal + Thunar (or something else)
New terminal + Nautilusfirst terminal + nautilus = not working
first terminal + thunar [new session] = works
second terminal + nautilus = not working
second terminal + thunar [same session] = not working
second terminal + thunar [new session] = worksafter killall nautilus:
first terminal + nautilus = works only once
second terminal + nautilus = not working
Just to clarify: You are using two different terminals, correct? Not just two open terminals?
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Just to clarify: You are using two different terminals, correct? Not just two open terminals?
Yes, gnome-terminal (first) and konsole (second).
Also drag text from firefox to gedit do the same thing: It works only once (sometimes twice). If I restart Firefox, i'm able to drag text one more time. In this instance, neither nautilus nor gnome-terminal was used.
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Could you try to reproduce this problem in KDE, Openbox, or something similar?
Last edited by cesura (2010-08-02 23:51:58)
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Could you try to reproduce this problem in KDE, Openbox, or something similar?
Yes, I tried with xfce, lxde and openbox inside gnome: The problem persists.
EDIT:
With KDE, if I don't use GTK apps as source (like firefox), drag and drop works well.
Dolphin -> audacious = OK
Firefox -> kwrite = works once
dolphin -> konsole = OK
konqueror -> gedit = OK
Last edited by SchizoidMan (2010-08-03 11:24:12)
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Hi,
I'm also having this problem. It had messed up a lot of files and folders before I noticed it.
Has this issue been fixed or is there a workaround yet?
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I have the same issue and I thought I made a mistake while installing.
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Wait a second!! How can you keep a window on top of another one wile dragging an object from a window below that one?
Anyway, what's your "focus stealing prevention" level?
Have you tried to disable compiz?
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Wait a second!! How can you keep a window on top of another one wile dragging an object from a window below that one?
Anyway, what's your "focus stealing prevention" level?
Have you tried to disable compiz?
I havent got installed compiz.
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This bug is due to the version 1.3.5 of libx11. Version 1.3.3 hasn't this bug but 1.3.6 has this bug too. Download, compile and install 1.3.3 resolve problem.http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/lib/
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Thanks corossig, I'm going to check that out.
Edit 1: I haven't tested your suggestion yet, but just in case I found the package here: http://schlunix.org/archlinux/extra/os/ … pkg.tar.gz
Edit 2: Installing 1.3.3 fixed the issue and it's working fine so far. (Bypass dependencies with the -d flag).
Last edited by rivoot (2010-10-10 01:32:08)
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Wait a second!! How can you keep a window on top of another one wile dragging an object from a window below that one?
Basicly that's my question. How can this be done without unticking Raise on click option in Compiz?
Thanks in advance.
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libx11 1.4.0 seem to be ok.
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sorry offtopic
but how did you make your terminal transparent like that?
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You must activate composite in metacity.
$ gconftool-2 -s -t boolean /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager true
And in gnome-terminal profil, choose transparent background.
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