Mouse wheel doesn't switch windows when focus following
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Xfwm4 |
Fix Released
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Medium
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xfwm4 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Activating focus follows mouse from Settings > Window Manager > Focus > Focus follows mouse breaks the panel's window buttons plugin so that the mouse wheel to switch windows no longer works.
To reproduce, set the focus follows mouse setting. Open a few windows. Move the mouse onto the panel, over the window buttons applet and scroll the mouse wheel up or down. Normall it swaps the currently active window to the next window on each scroll of the mouse, but with sloppy focus it gets stuck after swapping one window. You can compare the expected behaviour with when the Focus > click to focus setting is set.
This bug is apparently not present in Xfce 4.10.1 (tested by a fellow Xfce user running Arch). I'm running 14.04 Xubuntu, installed from scratch with a new profile. xfwm is 4.11.1 and xfce4-panel is 4.11.0.
I tried compiling xfce4-panel and reverting to the older plugins/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xfwm4 4.11.1-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat May 3 09:48:09 2014
SourcePackage: xfwm4
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in xfwm4: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in xfwm4: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
If 'focus follows mouse' is enabled, clicking a window button in the taskbar raises the window but doesn't give it focus.
This behavior doesn't match the 4.10 release where the window does get focus.
Annoyingly this makes raising a window with one click, looking at it and then minimizing it with a second click impossible.
I'm running xubuntu 14.04 x64
xfwm4 version 4.11.1 (revision 2b800f4) for Xfce 4.10
xfce4-panel 4.11.0 (Xfce 4.10)