I just upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04 and can no longer reproduce this bug. My
xorg package is 1:7.7+7ubuntu4. As far as I know the upgrade is the only
change I've made to my desktop since the last time I could reproduce the
bug.
I hope this new information is helpful. I'd still be happy to help out
wit
Sorry, I just remembered I had turned off sloppy focus because Steam
doesn't play well with it. I went ahead and turned sloppy focus back on
and I still can't reproduce the bug at will (by unplugging and re-
plugging-in my mouse).
I will of course post here again if I ever do see the bug again.
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Here's a work-around until the package is fixed:
TMP=`mktemp -d`
cd $TMP
grep Url: /usr/share/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer | awk
'{print $2}' | xargs -n 1 wget
sudo /usr/lib/msttcorefonts/update-ms-fonts $TMP/*
cd -
rm -rf $TMP
Note that this does skip the hash sum check, but
I think the SourceForge servers are too smart for their own good. When I
did an HTTP 0.9 request (no protocol specified in the GET), I got an
HTML page saying the page didn't exist. When I did an HTTP 1.1 request
(below) I got a 'bad request' error. When I fetched it with wget I got
multiple redire