[Sawfish] Re: The strange unexpected resize

[Geoff Kuenning <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I just had the resize happen again.  It was definitely click, release, move mouse that caused the resize; the resize kept going even after the mouse button was released. 
 Of course there's always the possibility of a small move between 
 the click and release, but having the resize happen while the 
 mouse is up is...disconcerting.

> Hi, all, again,
>
> I mentioned that I'm having two weird problems with Sawfish 
> 1.11.90.  My second problem is that I randomly get into resize 
> mode on some windows.  I'm not certain that Sawfish is the 
> culprit in this case.
>
> The symptom is that I will click and drag in the middle of a 
> window (nowhere near the edges or title bar) because I'm trying 
> to do something like selecting text and it will suddenly start 
> resizing along with the drag.  Fortunately, I've found that I 
> can hit ESC and the resizing will stop, returning the window to 
> its original size.
>
> I'm not even sure that I'm clicking and dragging, and of course 
> I can't reproduce the problem at the moment.  But given my work 
> habits, it's highly likely that in fact I'm clicking and 
> releasing (possibly with a bit of intermediate mouse motion, of 
> course) and then the resize starts following the unclicked 
> mouse.
>
> Anyway, the phenomenon almost always happens when I'm using the 
> Firefox browser, and for a long time I thought it was a Firefox 
> bug.  But a couple of days ago it happened (I think) in a 
> non-Firefox window, which is what led me to start wondering if 
> it were Sawfish doing the strange thing.
>
> Unless somebody has a magic solution of "Oh, that's a feature, 
> here's how to turn it off", I think what I'm really looking for 
> is debugging advice.  If I could enable some kind of logging, or 
> add code to instrument the resize function, that might well lead 
> me to the root cause.  I'm good with Lisp and elisp, so rep 
> isn't scary, but I don't know all the built-in functions.
>
> So if somebody could give me some debugging hints, that would be 
> way cool.
>
> Thanks for listening!
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   Geoff Kuenning   geoff@xxxxxxxxxx 
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