weird screen border problem on 4.2

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Sat Jan 29 10:33:25 CET 2005


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 00:57 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>> It *is* a 1 pix wide window.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> ok... then why doesn't panel autohide work?
>>>   
>>
>> Because people simply move the pointer till the edge of the screen where
>> the hidden window reside.
>>
>> The panel receives an enter event immediately followed by a leave event
>> (when the pointer enters the hidden window, it leaves the panel window)
>> so the panel doesn't unhide.
>>
>> All this is very simple, basic, predictable...
>>  
>>
> ok, so then why not ignore leave events?  (assuming the autohide window 
> and the panel are not the same window.)
> 

They are. And I specifically want a timeout, so accidentally moving the 
mouse over the panel quickly will not cause an unhide.



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