focus does not follow mouse during drag-and-drop

Hi Leonard!

I can confirm this issue, although I'm not sure that this is bug belongs to compiz. I suppose that you are using gnome with metacity. And I'm moving this report to metacity package.

Thanks for your support.

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

Hi Michele

Thank you for your reply.

> I can confirm this issue, although I'm not sure that this is bug belongs
> to compiz. I suppose that you are using gnome with metacity. And I'm
> moving this report to metacity package.

I am pretty sure that I am not using metacity. (ps axu | grep -i
metacity) gtk-window-decorator mimics metacity window decorations and
uses metacity themes, though.

I don't know weather this is a compiz issue or a general issue of gnome
drag&drop. I imagine that the window manager does not get/understand the
enter event, when the mouse button is pressed.

Thanks for your sympathies.

:)

I apologize for the inconvenience!!!!

I thought that it was an issue of metacity... I was wrong!

Please, don't bother my previous suggestion! ;)

Thanks for your patience!

I found that Compiz explicitly ignores EnterNotify events that occur because of an ungrab. Apparently, in drag-drop some app grabs the focus and releases it, when the object is dropped. In this situation X issues an EnterNotify event with the mode NotifyUngrab. If I let compiz not ignore this event, I get the desired behavior. Please test the patch to see if it has any unwanted effects.

I have a patched version in my ppa and the patch is also attached to this bug report. The fix works fine with me (intrepid) and compiles for jaunty. Please test and consider to release the fix with jaunty (e.g. alpha).

Since I am not a MOTU assign to nobody

Ok, maybe »Committed« is the wrong word. There is a fix available and we wait for the package maintainer to commit it.

the upstream change is an one liner change

Thanks for the bugreport and the patch!

I uploaded the 0.8 branch to the compiz PPA that includes this fix, if all goes well I will upload it into the main archive tomorrow.

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.7.9+git20090211-0ubuntu1

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compiz (1:0.7.9+git20090211-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * build from the 0.8 git branch
    - fixes focus problem (LP: #274407)
    - fixes problem with latest libmetacity decoration (LP: #327793)
    - enable new gnomecompat plugin by default
  * debian/patches:
   - updated 013-add-cursor-theme-support.patch
   - updated 018_use_metacity_settings.patch
   - updated 029_default_options
   - updated 035_ignore_workspaces
   - updated 037_fullscreen_stacking_fixes.patch (mostly merged upstream
     just the move plugin changes remain)
   - dropped 027_default_to_gnome_terminal
   - dropped 040_resolve-animation-fade-conflict_from_upstream.patch
   - dropped 047_no_display_compiz_desktop.patch
   - dropped 048_from_git_fix_placement.patch
   - dropped 050-scale-keybinding-toggle.patch
   - dropped 051-new-kde4-plasma-api.patch

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:39:03 +0100

I still have this bug in Ubuntu Karmic using compiz 0.8.3

I cannot reproduce this with 0.8.3 in karmic. When I drag a file from one nautilus window to another the second window gets focus when the drag ends. What steps are you using to reproduce this?