On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 21:57:33 -0500 Matthew Kolar <[email protected]> said:
> Raster, > > I'm fairly certain the window event regions not being reset right is the > big one that's making my life difficult, I bet if that was resolved a > lot of my problems would magically vanish. It may also be causing > focused windows not to pick up mouse events (cursor position, clicks, in > a game I can see two mouse cursors, the E one and the game one, and only > the E one is responsive.) You restart E so often that this is an issue? I mean restart (ctl+alt+end) not a fresh login. So often that just cycling through all the desktops once to fix things up after a restart makes this all impossible to deal with? > On 9/30/19 3:24 AM, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 21:46:51 -0500 Matthew Kolar <[email protected]> said: > > > >> Raster, > >> > >> Did you try my settings? I understand you are having trouble > >> replicating this, but it occurs on both of my machines, so I know I'm > >> not just hallucinating. E has become near unusable for me due to these > >> issues. > > you need to split these up. the "some other window gets clicked on/focused" > > in your earlier email is a different thing to the cursor entry and renaming > > a file. > > > > the first i know about. i see it. it ONLY happens if you have existing > > windows already *AND* restart e. right after restart the window event > > regions will be wrong. if you switch virtual desktops around, this fixes > > up. it only happens on a "live restart" so it's not exactly a common thing > > for most people so i'm not really that concerned about it. this actually > > has nothing to do with focus settings. > > > > the renaming should have nothing to do with your focus settings either as > > its focus WITHIN a window as well as pointer event handling etc. etc. so i > > didn't see any point trying your settings as they should not be relevant. e > > focus settings determine which *WINDOW* is focused in which circumstances. > > they do not determine focus within a window which is either elementary > > and/or e's internal widgets or efm smart object handling which all don't > > care about e's window focus mode. certainly clicking the mouse to place the > > cursor in the entry has zero to do with any focus stuff. > > > > i tested with default theme and flat and it all worked either way so not > > theme related i would say. the fact that key input works means focus is > > correct (focus is on the right object and window) but arrow keys are not > > working right. maybe its elementary settings stealing the arrow keys for > > focus control? > > > > checking your settings... it's nothing to do with focus settings... it's > > list mode vs icon mode. icon mode works. list mode does not. so switch to > > icon view mode and it'll work fine. i don't know what's up with list view > > though. i'd have to dig into that. > > > >> Matthew > >> > >> > >> On 9/29/19 7:22 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > >>> On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 06:07:35 -0500 Matthew Kolar <[email protected]> > >>> said: > >>> > >>>> Other things: When trying to rename a file, pressing right arrow does > >>>> not take the cursor to the end of the text dialog, nor the left arrow to > >>>> the front, nor does clicking on the text dailog put the cursor under the > >>>> mouse, you have to start typing and annihilate any pre-existing text. > >>> this all works just fine for me - arrows do what they should do in an > >>> entry. clicking to place the cursor works too. > >>> > >>>> On 9/28/19 5:55 AM, Massimo Maiurana wrote: > >>>>> I get some sort of this when executing commands from terminology. These > >>>>> are the steps: > >>>>> - in an mc instance inside terminology i run an application just hitting > >>>>> enter on a filename; let's say it's a pdf file so evince is called > >>>>> - evince is placed over the terminology window, it looks like it has > >>>>> focus because the titlebar is black but really it hasn't; if i try to > >>>>> scroll down the document or hit any key nothing happens because keyboard > >>>>> and mouse events are not sent to evince > >>>>> - i click on evince and terminology goes over evince, because keyboard > >>>>> and mouse is indeed sent at terminology; now I can switch to evince > >>>>> window and use it > >>>>> > >>>>> Massimo Maiurana > >>>>> > >>>>> Daniel Kasak ha scritto il 28/09/19 alle 08:18: > >>>>>> I get this ( sometimes ) *only* immediately after a restart ( ie a > >>>>>> crash recovery kind of restart ). I fix it by clicking on the window > >>>>>> border of each window and dragging it. It seems like until I do this, > >>>>>> E has a different idea of where windows are ( even though they appear > >>>>>> to be where I expect them ). It's not easy to reproduce, so I haven't > >>>>>> created a bug. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Dan > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 10:01 AM Matthew Kolar <[email protected]> > >>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>> Is anyone else here who uses E as a desktop on a PC having focus > >>>>>>> issues with the pager and windows? Oftentimes I will page to one > >>>>>>> screen, click, only to have the input caught by a different VD > >>>>>>> entirely! Sometimes, I will mouse into a window, it looks like it > >>>>>>> receives focus, but when I click on interior window elements, the > >>>>>>> click either is lost entirely, or it hits the background, and the > >>>>>>> start menu comes up. This is making it utterly aggravating to use E > >>>>>>> as a desktop. Is there anyone other than me out there who is > >>>>>>> experiencing this? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Note that I have attached a tar of my .e dir, so that anyone who > >>>>>>> wishes to test this can do so with the settings I use ( I'm the only > >>>>>>> person I've seen who uses vertical shelves, for instance.) > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Matthew > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>>> enlightenment-devel mailing list > >>>>>>> [email protected] > >>>>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > >>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>> enlightenment-devel mailing list > >>>>>> [email protected] > >>>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > >>>>>> > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> enlightenment-devel mailing list > >>>>> [email protected] > >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> enlightenment-devel mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > >>>> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - [email protected] _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
