[Xmonad] trouble with xmonad 0.3: mod-tab intermittently makes mouse clicks cease to work

Andrea Rossato mailing_list at istitutocolli.org
Sat Sep 8 07:05:05 EDT 2007


On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:22:07PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> Are you running unclutter?  I find that xmonad behaves strangely when
> unclutter has hidden the mouse pointer.
> 
> "unclutter -idle 2" leads to problems with OpenOffice: it doesn't want
> to relinquish focus when you switch to another screen.
> 
> "unclutter -grab -idle 2" leads to problems with some Gtk apps (most
> notably, Eclipse).  They don't drop down menus from the menu bar when
> the mouse pointer is hidden and you hit Alt-F (say) to access the (File,
> in this case) menu.
> 


Hi Kay,

as I said before I think there are some issues in the way unclutter
behaves without the -grab option:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2007-August/001938.html

In that message I also point to a small utility I wrote to substitute
unclutter (I've been using it since then without any problem). Could
you give it a try a tell me if your problems persist?

Thanks

Andrea



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