xfwm4 and moving windows

[Brian J. Tarricone]

I believe someone brought this up on the ML recently.  You might want
to search the archives.

In a (large) nutshell: X seems to think you're double-clicking when
you're in fact single-clicking.  You can check this by installing the
"xev" program.  Run it, and single-click in the window that pops up.
Watch the terminal where it started and see if you get one press event
and one release event, or two of each.

One possible cause is that you've installed both xf86-input-mouse and
xf86-input-evdev, and they've both detected your mouse so you're
getting duplicate events.  Try uninstalling -mouse and see if that
helps.  If it doesn't, put -mouse back and remove -evdev.

Another possible cause is that there's something in your system that's
causing X to see two mice for your single mouse.  Maybe you have some
kind of emulation mode running, or... something, I dunno.

Either way, you can also look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log to check out
what's going on with input device detection.  The 'xinput' program can
also list all your input devices.

	-brian

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:52:02 -0700 Nathan England wrote:

> 
> All,
> 
> I am still stuck with this problem. I have an LFS system and I have
> compiled all the packages listed below. I have built all the X.org
> packages required and I have twm and fluxbox working correctly,
> however I cannot get Xfce to work correctly.  Everything seems to
> work except I cannot move windows and I cannot select options in the
> menu bars.
> 
> If I click on the title bar it immediately shades or maximizes
> depending on how I have it set up. If I hold down ALT and click and
> drag a window it does not move. I can hold down ALT and right click
> and resize windows, thus moving them around the screen that way, but
> that is not really prefered. 
> 
> When I click on a menu bar if I hold down the left button I can
> select any option, but simply clicking once the list goes away
> immediately. I am wondering if my mouse click speed is way tooo fast,
> but I have adjusted it using the xfce mouse tool and it makes no
> difference. Is X over-exagerating my mouse clicking? I'm not sure. It
> works in twm and fluxbox so I assume it is an Xfce issue. Can anyone
> suggest a place to begin? I've been recompiling with different
> options for over two weeks now and I cannot make this work. I have
> rebuild all the X packages and even upgraded all of them to the
> latest versions of just about everything from
> xorg.freedesktop.org/pub/xorg/individual . Any help would be
> appreciated.
> 
> nathan
> 
> exo-0.3.4-1                                                                                                                                
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> libxfcegui4-4.4.2-1
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> squeeze-0.2.3-1
> terminal-0.2.8-1
> thunar-0.9.0-1
> vte-0.16.9-1
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> xfce-mcs-plugins-4.4.2-1
> xfce-utils-4.4.2-1
> xfce4-appfinder-4.4.2-1
> xfce4-dev-tools-4.4.0.1-1
> xfce4-icon-theme-4.4.2-1
> xfce4-mixer-4.4.2-1
> xfce4-panel-4.4.2-1
> xfce4-session-4.4.2-1
> xfdesktop-4.4.2-1
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