Mouse over flakey on top and left screen edges

Bug #1764204 reported by pqwoerituytrueiwoq
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xfce4-panel (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

For some reason the whiskers menu's icon can be missed by the mouse when the mouse is on the top and/or left edge of the screen, this does not happen on the bottom or right edge of the screen

So if you quickly go to click the menu you may not click the icon cause you are on the edge of the screen

Using `xdotool getmouselocation --shell` to I was able to get the mouse location showing the same coordinates for both hover states
Furthermore using xdotool to set the mouse location I am UNable to reproduce the issue:
while [ 1 ];do xdotool mousemove 0 0;xdotool mousemove 1 0;xdotool mousemove 0 1;done
It is almost seems like the mouse gets into a floating location between 0 and -1, but I would think something like that would affect any applet...

I have attached a recording of this issue
I have only been able to get this to happen using the xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin 2.1.5-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-15.16-generic 4.15.15
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.393
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon Apr 16 00:08:43 2018
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180415)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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pqwoerituytrueiwoq (pqwoerituytrueiwoq) wrote :
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Graeme Gott (gottcode) wrote :

I can recreate this with many plugins on the top panel, not just Whisker Menu. Just mousing back and forth across the very top edge of the panel button eventually causes this with the pulse audio plugin and the notifications plugin.

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pqwoerituytrueiwoq (pqwoerituytrueiwoq) wrote :

Yep the Indicator Plugin is also affected, I was able to reproduced on 14.04.5

affects: xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin (Ubuntu) → xfce4-panel (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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