evince grabs the mouse

[Alan Porter]

Binary package hint: evince

Ubuntu Maverick (10.10) system, upgraded to Natty (11.04), evince 2.32, "classic" gnome desktop.

This is hard to explain... when I open a document in evince, and then I pass the mouse over it in any way, it grabs the mouse and goes into a document-scrolling mode. I can not simply pass over the document, for example, trying to go from one side of the screen to the other. Once the mouse enters evince (and it can either be in the left-hand section that shows multiple pages, or in the main area that shows the document), the pointer stays on the same part of the screen, and the document slides around under it.

I end up having to use keyboard commands to either alt-tab and make another application get focus, or maybe close the document using crtl-W or alt-F-Q.

I thought that it might have had to do with me removing the overlay scrollbars (I removed overlay-scrollbar and liboverlay-scrollbar-0.1-0 and I set LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0). But when I reinstalled the overlay scrollbars, evince still grabbed the mouse.

I am perplexed. Has anyone else seen this problem?

[Alan Porter (alan.porter)]

Did a fresh install of Natty in a new partition, and evince is behaving itself... the problem, whatever it was, is not in my $HOME.

[Konstantinov eugen (jskonst)]

Hello, i had the same problem on my netbook, i have solved this problem by installing older version of evince 2.32.0-ubuntu12(natty) and it worked :)

[Jorge Pérez (ktl-xv)]

Same thing happened to me, because I installed utouch's evince, this is possibly a duplicate of Bug #766678
To fix, go into synaptic, search for evince and force another version (select evince and <Control>E

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Could you please try the same on Oneiric? I cannot reproduce the bug here, thanks.

[Alan Porter (alan.porter)]

I am not able to comment further on this bug because the original system in question has been wiped and reinstalled with a different distro. I have not seen this symptom on other oneiric-based systems, and I did not have any other natty-based systems to test this on.

Thanks for checking. Others who saw this same problem should feel free to comment.

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