Mouse drag doesn't scroll horizontally when selecting long line in maximized window

[IRIE Shinsuke]

Binary package hint: chromium-browser

I installed chromium-browser in Lucid Lynx and found that very long line can't be selected when application window is maximized because horizontal scroll doesn't occur by dragging it.

The steps to reproduce this problem are:

1. Maximize application window
2. Open Web page which includes long lines exceeding display width
3. Select the long line by dragging toward to the end of line

The expected result is that horizontal scroll occurs if mouse pointer is on the right edge of display, so the long line can be selected to the end. However, the scroll doesn't occur and we can't select the whole of the line. I confirmed that Firefox's window can scroll horizontally.

The version numbers of related packages are:

$ apt-cache policy chromium-browser metacity
chromium-browser:
  Installed: 5.0.342.9~r43360-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 5.0.342.9~r43360-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 5.0.342.9~r43360-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
metacity:
  Installed: 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Note that I also reported the same issue on Chromium bug tracker (Issue 44435).

[IRIE Shinsuke (irie)]

Issue 44435 has been merged into issue 37320.

[IRIE Shinsuke (irie)]

Morita-san started working on Webkit upstream (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39417).

[IRIE Shinsuke (irie)]

Chromium issue 44435 was reopened because it's a separate issue from 37320.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

The upstream bug is marked fixed.