[Xastir-dev] right-click in Xastir 1.9.4 and 1.9.6 hangs the pointer

[Alan Crosswell]

Thanks, Curt.  I'll keep digging.  I've tried both Gnome and KDE.  In 
fact, it's even happening with no desktop manager.
/a

On 10/28/2009 01:06 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Alan Crosswell wrote:
>
>> I thought this might be the zero-size list thing I saw in the xastir 
>> or xastir-dev list archives...  So I installed 1.9.6 to make sure I 
>> had the latest code.
>
> That zero-size problem had to do with the "Desktop Effects" option
> which enabled "compiz" as I recall.
>
>
>> If I right click in Xastir, the pointer switches orientation (arrow 
>> leaning to the right), no pop-up menu appears, and the pointer is 
>> stuck in the Xastir window.  It can't navigate out of the Xastir 
>> window and I have to pop over to another virtual terminal 
>> (control-alt-F2) and kill the xastir process to get control back.  
>> This is under FC12 rawhide with the default gnome display manager.
>>
>> Is this the same bug I saw in the list?  Have others experienced this?
>
> I have not seen this (that I recall, which ain't saying much), but
> I don't run Gnome or KDE.  It's certainly possible that they've
> changed something in newer desktops that make them incompatible with
> Motif-based apps.  The "compiz" bug was in that category as I think
> other Motif apps were problematic under compiz as well.
>
> Sure would be nice if people would think about making things
> backward-compatible when they add code, instead of just tromping
> forward blindly assuming everyone uses KDE or Gnome and can fix
> their apps at will to comply.
>