Scrolling with mouse wheel quickly over taskbar makes tasks glow (alert)

[Joseph Garvin]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Usually when a window wants your attention, it will cause the window to blink in the task bar (like when you receive an IM). But you can make _any_ window do this, simply by scrolling with the mouse wheel too quickly through tasks in the task bar.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a bunch of windows
2. Move mouse over taskbar
3. Scroll mouse wheel up and down quickly

You'll notice some of the windows in the taskbar (seems random) will start doing the glow/blink effect. This is really confusing if you get used to quickly scrolling down on the taskbar to look at the last window you have open or quickly scrolling up to look at the first.

I'm guessing for some reason gnome is reading the alert status of the window correctly if you switch from it too quickly.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. I've forwarded it upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341630

[Joseph Garvin (k04jg02)]

I can confirm this bug has been fixed in Maverick, at least when using metacity. I tried using metacity, compiz, and xmonad, and gnome-panel won't glow when I scroll wheel quickly regardless of which one I use.