Re: FVWM: Is this fvwm or X or what?

On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 08:26:22AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I have a Kensington trackball, which means I can click a mouse
> button without touching the ball, and there is absolutely
> no mouse movement when I click.
> 
> When I do such a mouse click on the window decoration "close"
> button, I see the button animation as it appears to be
> depressed and spring back up which makes me believe
> it did indeed see both the press and release events.
> 
> But fairly often, the window will just sit there, not
> closing till I finally touch the trackball and cause
> some mouse movement event, then the window finally pops
> out of existence.
> 
> Clearly this is the worlds most unimportant problem, but
> I just got curious about it, so I thought I'd ask if
> anyone knows something that would cause this.

It's either a hardware problem (trackball broken) or the X server
is doing something strange (not deliver the button release event
unless there is some mouse motion).  I've seen thing like this
before, caused by both.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt