running sugar causes left-click not to work properly in GNOME

Thanks for the bug report and patch! I will try to have it fixed on the release that goes out Sunday January 24.

I have never worked with Gconf before. It looks like I will be spending tomorrow morning on the gnome website researching gconf:)

BTW, even though your code snippet is not strictly a patch. It is enough to point a triager or developer in the right direction. That is a huge help.

Rafael Ortiz

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:46 AM, David Farning <email address hidden> wrote:
> BTW, even though your code snippet is not  strictly a patch.  It is
> enough to point a triager or developer in the right direction.  That is
> a huge help.
>
> --
> mouse bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511225
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> Status in “sugar-0.88” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
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> Bug description:
> After installing this package, the mouse is not working like its supposed to in Gnome. <ctrl> needs to be pressed when clicking for the left mouse button to work. Bug only appears after sugar is used.  Henry Grover wrote this shell script to fix the bug temporarily:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #Fix metacity clicking problem caused by alsroot's sugar, run in the home directory of whoever has the problem
>
> rm .gconf/apps/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/general/%gconf.xml
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Hi Michael

Thanks for your help.
are you sure you want to make the first step..

 rm .gconf/apps/%gconf.xml ?

i agree with you that the bug can be introduced by metacity..but not
all the apps

I believe this bug was already reported, those files were the cause of the
problem, so I gave people that quick script to delete them. This is only in
Karmic, I believe. That script really wasn't thought through, it was just
the quickest fix available so I threw it out there, if anybody can shine
some light on the bug that'd be great =)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sugar/+bug/479179

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Michael <email address hidden>wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> After installing this package, the mouse is not working like its
> supposed to in Gnome. <ctrl> needs to be pressed when clicking for the
> left mouse button to work. Bug only appears after sugar is used. Henry
> Grover wrote this shell script to fix the bug temporarily:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #Fix metacity clicking problem caused by alsroot's sugar, run in the home
> directory of whoever has the problem
>
> rm .gconf/apps/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/general/%gconf.xml
>
> ** Affects: sugar-0.88 (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> --
> mouse bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511225
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Sugar
> Team, which is subscribed to sugar-0.88 in ubuntu.
>
> Status in “sugar-0.88” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> After installing this package, the mouse is not working like its supposed
> to in Gnome. <ctrl> needs to be pressed when clicking for the left mouse
> button to work. Bug only appears after sugar is used. Henry Grover wrote
> this shell script to fix the bug temporarily:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #Fix metacity clicking problem caused by alsroot's sugar, run in the home
> directory of whoever has the problem
>
> rm .gconf/apps/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/general/%gconf.xml
>
>
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I am marking this fix release as it has been fixed on ubuntu 10.04 and we can now set gconf setting in USR-lucid. We do not yet have the resources to maintain karmic.

Hello All,

Today, Michael tried opening up the sugar emulator, straight from
"Applications-->Education", and this mouse bug happened yet again.

He has Lucid installed and is on what I believe to be the latest version of
sugar-0.88, 0.87.1-1, which he installed straight from the Sugarteam PPA.
At this point I'm starting to believe that it is our hardware, because
Dfarning could not reproduce it. Michael is running a Dell Latitude E5500.
When Alsroot looked into this same problem in sugar-0.86, he was indeed able
to reproduce it (On his own laptop I believe.)

I'm going to work on reproducing it in a virtualbox now, but it's a pretty
vital problem to fix.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:12 PM, David Farning <email address hidden> wrote:

> I am marking this fix release as it has been fixed on ubuntu 10.04 and
> we can now set gconf setting in USR-lucid. We do not yet have the
> resources to maintain karmic.
>
> ** Changed in: sugar-0.88 (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
>
> --
> mouse bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511225
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Sugar
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> Status in “sugar-0.88” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> After installing this package, the mouse is not working like its supposed
> to in Gnome. <ctrl> needs to be pressed when clicking for the left mouse
> button to work. Bug only appears after sugar is used. Henry Grover wrote
> this shell script to fix the bug temporarily:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #Fix metacity clicking problem caused by alsroot's sugar, run in the home
> directory of whoever has the problem
>
> rm .gconf/apps/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/general/%gconf.xml
>
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The bug exists in ubuntu-lucid-beta2-amd64 running on my Dell Inspiron 1420.

For anyone reading this, apart from the shell script fix, one can also open "System->Preferences->CompizConfig Settings Manager" and select "Preferences->Reset to Defaults" to fix this as well.

In reply to what Anish commented above, I have used the export function of the compiz settings manager and exported the broken settings and the restored settings and made a diff. I don't know if this is of some use to anybody, but just in case I will upload it here.

Corrected Meta information in the *.patch file according to http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/

Patch rejected upstream (by Tomeu):

"""
I'm quite confused at how alsroot's workaround can work. Just tried it here and with <Super> I cannot move windows with <Alt>+Click.

That said, I don't see how it could be a problem for Sugar, so I can apply that patch if it works for the rest.

"""

Per further comments from upstream, the patch was merged.

This bug was fixed in the package sugar-0.88 - 0.88.1-2ubuntu2

---------------
sugar-0.88 (0.88.1-2ubuntu2) maverick; urgency=low

  * Added gconf_settings_mouse_bug.patch. (LP: #511225)
 -- Neeraj Gupta <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:29:22 +0530

Does this seem like something worth SRUing to Lucid?

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Luke Faraone <email address hidden> wrote:

> Does this seem like something worth SRUing to Lucid?
>
Sorry I didnt get the meaning of the word "SRUing"

>
> --
> running sugar causes left-click not to work properly in GNOME
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511225
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (479179).
>
> Status in Sugar Learning Platform: New
> Status in “sugar-0.88” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> After installing this package, the mouse is not working like its supposed
> to in Gnome. <ctrl> needs to be pressed when clicking for the left mouse
> button to work. Bug only appears after sugar is used. Henry Grover wrote
> this shell script to fix the bug temporarily:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #Fix metacity clicking problem caused by alsroot's sugar, run in the home
> directory of whoever has the problem
>
> rm .gconf/apps/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/general/%gconf.xml
>
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With Regards
Alpesh Gajbe

www.gnowledge.org
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On 09/01/2010 04:16 AM, Alpesh wrote:
> Sorry I didnt get the meaning of the word "SRUing"

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates for details. Basically,
porting the fix as a update to a stable release, like Lucid.

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I too have this problem... Not able to do proper mouse clicks..

I have to press Alt or Ctrl along with the Mouse Click to properly work....

Fixed it by going to Compiz Settings Manager and Resetting To Default Preferences...

I get it also. I had to install the ccsm package.

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:33, Krishna <email address hidden> wrote:
> I too have this problem...  Not able to do proper mouse clicks..
>
> I have to press Alt or Ctrl along with the Mouse Click to properly
> work....
>
> Fixed it by  going to Compiz Settings Manager and Resetting To Default
> Preferences...
>
> --
> running sugar causes left-click not to work properly in GNOME
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511225
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Sugar
> Team, which is subscribed to sugar-0.88 in ubuntu.
>
> Status in Sugar Learning Platform: Fix Released
> Status in “sugar-0.88” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> After installing this package, the mouse is not working like its supposed to in Gnome. <ctrl> needs to be pressed when clicking for the left mouse button to work. Bug only appears after sugar is used.  Henry Grover wrote this shell script to fix the bug temporarily:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #Fix metacity clicking problem caused by alsroot's sugar, run in the home directory of whoever has the problem
>
> rm .gconf/apps/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/%gconf.xml
> rm .gconf/apps/metacity/general/%gconf.xml
>
>
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On 09/20/2010 11:57 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> I get it also. I had to install the ccsm package.

Are you running Maverick?

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I have also the bug on 10.04.

Accepted sugar-0.88 into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

SRU Verification for Lucid.

I've been able to reproduce the issue with sugar-0.88 0.87.2-1 in Lucid, but I'm rejecting the SRU because:
- the fix is overwriting the settings of another application (metacity) without user's consent.
- The default button modifier is Alt and Sugar change it to Super (Win key)
- The situation is unchanged from the original issue

I don"t know why sugar need to change the modifier key but if it must, a possible fix could be to save the original setting at the beginning of the session and restore it at the end of the session.

Marking as verification-failed.

Failed SRU, no response, been in -proposed for > 100 days, I removed the proposed package.

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".