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

[Kai Grossjohann]

Perhaps you could try without unclutter for a while...

Kai


On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:28:43AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:

> Good points you raise, Kai. I simply run unclutter with:
> 
> 	unclutter -idle 1 &
> 
> /not/ with the -grab flag.
> 
> -- Don
> 
> kai:
> > 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.
> > 
> > Kai
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:44:39PM +0000, Zed Lopez wrote:
> > 
> > > I tried Xmonad 0.3 last night. I have a double-monitor setup, configured as
> > > separate screens (I used this successfully with Xmonad 0.2.) I was only using
> > > one of them, with the FullScreen layout, and a bog-standard, uncustomized,
> > > no-extensions Xmonad 0.3.
> > > 
> > > Occasionally, Mod-tabbing between screens resulted in mouse clicks doing nothing
> > > -- the mouse continued to move the cursor. Cycling through the windows again
> > > with mod-tab fixed it.
> > > 
> > > I can't reproduce this at will -- like I said, it's intermittent. Is anyone else
> > > facing this?
> > > 
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