>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer_at_mch.sni.de> writes:
Martin> Romano Giannetti wrote,...
>> On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Andrew Veliath wrote:
>>
>> > Anyone still experience the sticky windows problem? I find it much
>> > more pronounced when the system is under load.
>>
>> Go to the title bar. Click. Pointer became a black dot. Wait, and after a
>> while it is tranformed in a "four-arrows" one. Now, if you repeat the
>> procedure and could release the button just at the same time the
dot-> four-arrows transformation happens, a move is triggered and
>> you have the glued windows. The notion of "just at the same time"
>> change with load ...
Martin> There was a patch from Robert Nation (the original fvwm
Martin> author) for fvwm-2.0.40 which was sent to this list in a
Martin> "verbal" (i,e, not machine readable) form. I implemented the
Martin> algorithm he suggested and kept it in my RCS history.
Opps! I remember when Rob suggested that, and I meant to go back and
investigate it, but it slipped my mind...
Martin> Well, I _do_ have a slower machine here which occasionally
Martin> suffers heavy load, so I this bug gave me a lot of trouble...
Martin> This patch cured the symptom for me, though it might not be the final
Martin> word on the topic (the detect-doubleclick-by-delay technique isn't the
Martin> best of all).
No, I still think that the method for determining Click, DoubleClick,
or Motion needs to be looked at and perhaps reworked. I'll be doing
that when I get a chance.
Martin> As far as I can tell, this patch should apply to 2.0.42 as
Martin> well (I thought is was incorporated anyway), so here it goes
Martin> (NOTE: this was for 2.0.40, and I didn't test it for 2.0.42
Martin> yet!):
Well, I'll play with it and see if it makes things any better. If it
doesn't harm anything at least, it'll be in the next beta.
Thanks,
Chuck
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Received on Fri Apr 19 1996 - 08:52:37 BST