Sticky edges should only use horizontal mouse movement

Bug #982543 reported by sid payton
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Fix Released
High
John Lea
Unity
Fix Released
High
Brandon Schaefer
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Brandon Schaefer

Bug Description

1. Unity open and another monitor attached.
2. Have the sticky edges option activated
3. Move the mouse near to the edge to the other monitor without actually move over
4. Now move the mouse up or down while moving just a bit the the other monitor.

= the cursor move over to the other monitor.

Solution:
To go over to the other monitor, only the horizontal mouse movement should be used as indicator on how mus pressure is pushed against the edge.

This would show how much the user actually wants to go over to the other monitor and not moving to the top or buttom of the current monitor.

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Desired solution:

- Vertical pointer movement should be ignored when calculating the breakthrough threshold for both the 'launcher reveal' and 'launcher Edge Stop' components of sticky edges.

Tags: exbacklog udp

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Revision history for this message
Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

I think its a bug that the cursor is visible on the other display while the sticky edge is causing resistance on the other.

no longer affects: ayatana-design
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: udp
description: updated
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → backlog
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Tim Penhey (thumper)
Changed in unity:
milestone: backlog → none
Tim Penhey (thumper)
tags: added: exbacklog
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer)
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 7.0.0
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 6.12.0daily13.02.19.1-0ubuntu1

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unity (6.12.0daily13.02.19.1-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  [ Brandon Schaefer ]
  * Multi-monitor: Mousepointer hangs when passing between monitors,
    although no Launcher is there (regression) (LP: #1120223)
  * Sticky edges should only use horizontal mouse movement (LP: #982543)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * Launcher - Workspace switcher should not be in the Launcher by
    default (LP: #868423)
  * [regression] Unlocking a running application, removes it from the
    Launcher (LP: #1122311)
  * Launcher, Workspaces - dragging and dropping the workspaces icon on
    to the trash should switch Workspaces off (LP: #1118271)

  [ Chris Townsend ]
  * webapp: alt-tab gets "stucked" on the browser rather than going to
    the next entry (LP: #1070715)

  [ Nick Dedekind ]
  * Dash - the "Decade" and "Size" dash filter category widgets are
    broken (LP: #841899)
  * Dash Places group is shining on quick mouse over (LP: #1119487)

  [ Lukas Vacek ]
  * Show window list when right clicking an icon in launcher - enables
    quick window switching (LP: #1107866)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@3v1n0.net>, Lukas Vacek ]
  * Show window list when right clicking an icon in launcher - enables
    quick window switching (LP: #1107866)

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * unity launcher vanishes when switching to mirrored displays (LP:
    #991637)
  * Opening an app with super+num shorcut doesn't give focus to the app
    (LP: #1125331)
  * Alt+` and detail switcher broken after revision 3153 (LP: #1129372)

  [ Sam Spilsbury ]
  * Unity unnecessarily clears the ShapeBounding shape of windows on
    minimize (LP: #1091600)
  * Can't access minimized window after Unity restarts (LP: #851964)

  [ Automatic PS uploader ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 3163
 -- Automatic PS uploader <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:26:14 +0000

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

Fix Released in Unity Unity 7.0.0 "R series".

Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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