Cannot click buttons on "End Session" dialog

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Wed Feb 8 16:52:10 CET 2006


Adriano Winter Bess wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There's a problem I've been facing since previous Xfce releases (4.x). On Xfce
> 4.0 and 4.2 it was so hard to reproduce (specially because I didn't know about
> the possibility of sending SIGUSR1 to the panel) that I didn't bother to report
> this. But now with the new "End Session" dialog with bigger buttons (xfce SVN)
> which takes (at least on my machine) some time to appear on screen, it became
> quite trivial to reproduce.
> 
> The problem is that the buttons cannot be clicked under special circunstances. I
> don't have a pretty good understanding of everything that's going on behind the
> scenes, so I don't know if it is Xfce related (i.e. xfce4-session) or if it's
> something related to GTK itself.
> 
> There are two ways to reproduce this:
> 
>  - the hard one:
>  1. Make sure you have the "confirm on logout" option enabled;
>  2. Click the panel action button to logout;
>  3. Move the mouse pointer to the place where the buttons on "End Session" dialog
>     will appear (any of them will do it) _BEFORE_ the dialog appears on screen.
>  RESULT: the button won't get clicked.
> 
>  - the easy one:
>  1. Make sure you have the "confirm on logout" option enabled;
>  2. Move the mouse pointer to the place where one of the buttons on "End
>     Session" dialog will appear;
>  3. Send SIGUSR1 to xfce4-panel.
>  RESULT: the button won't get clicked.

- the really easy one:
1. and 2. as usual
3. Run xfce4-session-logout

> Any thoughts about this? Should I file a bug? I'm using xfce4-session r19529,
> but as I said, this problem has been showing up for a long time.

Have you tried moving the pointer to another widget and back to the
button? That should do the trick.

> Regards,
> Adriano

Benedikt



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