alt-drag doesn’t work on active window

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Binary package hint: compiz

Recently (as of the latest update I did) all Alt+mouse click actions stopped working on the active window.

I’m not sure how to find all such actions, but the ones I use by reflex are Alt+left button drag for moving windows and Alt+middle button (click wheel) drag for resizing windows.

If I try either of those on a window other than the “top” one (the one that has focus when I start the command), everything works correctly. However, if I try them on the current window they don’t work. Instead, the action happens as if the Alt key wasn’t held down. (E.g., if I try to move a focused terminal window it will select text in the terminal; if I try to resize the current terminal window I get a “paste” operation of whatever is currently selected somewhere else, as on a normal middle-click.)

However, there’s an option that displays the underline below hot-keys in a menu, e.g. the “F” in file, only when the Alt key is pressed. (I believe the other options are never and always. I don’t know what piece of the desktop “owns” that option.) I have that option activated, and it seems to work in the terminal. When I attempt to do any of the actions I described above, the underlines are displayed in the menus, which indicate that the Alt key is detected correctly, it just isn’t acted on by whatever piece of Compiz should.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: compiz 1:0.9.2.1+glibmainloop4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 17 17:09:01 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: compiz

[Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb)]

I notice an “nvidia-installer.log” file added to the bug report. I think I did use a manually-installed version of the driver a (long) while ago, but as far as I know I’m running nvidia-current.

I don’t know if there are any other traces of the manual version left, is there a way to find out? Should I just remove that log file?