Re: FVWM: bug dragging stuff off the pager?

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 05:43:29 +0200

On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 11:34:44PM -0400, ken_at_hudat.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using the same config from fvwm 2.0.46 up through now. The
> fvwm2's installed default with RedHat 5.2 and 6.0 both worked fine with
> this configuration (RH6.0 used fvwm 2.2). However on RH6.1 (which uses
> fvwm 2.2.2) I have a problem when dragging windows out of the pager and
> onto my current desk (which as I realized today, is something I do
> extremely often ;)
>
> If I grab a window in the pager and start to drag it around within the
> pager, it works just fine. As soon as the mouse leaves the pager (while
> still dragging) the window does not magically appear at the mouse cursor
> for my placement on the current page. It seems that it stays on the page
> that it was originally in, however it moves with the movement of my mouse
> (as though there isn't any calculation of the geometry or something to
> place it on the current page).

This is a known bug in 2.2.2. It is already fixed in the development
sources.

> I checked the bug database and didn't see anything like this there. I
> haven't been actively reading the list in ages, so I'm sorry if this is a
> known bug. Currently, the pager is my favorite and most used feature in
> fvwm2, along with the raise-lower toggle which I bind to my win95 key ;) I
> would use gnome except enlightenment is slow and has a virtually useless
> pager (same goes with KDE).

> Fvwm kicks total ass!

Yours or that of other window managers? ;-)

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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