Moving a window between xinerama screens using panel context-menu disable pointer

[Vincent Tschanz]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Ubuntu 8.10
Xinerama on 2 screens with a nvidia Geforce 6600 and proprietary driver v177

Step to reproduce:

- Open a windows
- move it on the second screen
- using right-clic on the deskbar, choose "move" to move the window
- move it back to the first screen
- the windows doesn't appear on the first screen and now your pointer is useless. You can move it but you can't click or move anything.

This bug appear to me after updating from 8.04 to 8.10.

What can I do to help more?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, could you send it upstream since you're getting the issue? i don't have a xinerama to test and probably not a lot of the triagers here have it, for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; thanks in advance.

[Vincent Tschanz (fogia)]

Ok, thank you.

In additon I also noticed this bug happens also when taking control of the computer with VNC :

Ubuntu 8.10
Xinerama on 2 screens with a nvidia Geforce 6600 and proprietary driver v177 Or v173

Step to reproduce:

- connect to the computer with VNC (personnaly I use thight VNC on my office computer via a ssh tunnel)
- move a window trough vnc
- now if you try to use the mouse locally, you can only move the cursor, no clik, no right-clic, only the keyboard is usable until you restart X.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

any news about this? did you sent it upstream? may you tell us the bug number? thanks.

[Vincent Tschanz (fogia)]

here is the link : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565832

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you, KRS. Linking the bug to GNOME Panel.

[Vincent Tschanz (fogia)]

This bug is now fixed with Intrepid update of this week : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/296167