[Parti-discuss] gtk settings under xpra (was Re: xpra misbehaves with xterm menus)

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:18 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> 
> That may just be because double/triple clicks are a bit dicey under
> xpra -- it sends user input with a high priority, but the network
> tends to jitter the exact timing that click events are delivered at.
> If the second click gets delayed, then a double-click can be turned
> into two-single-clicks.

In fact it was double-clicks acting like triple clicks.  But I suspect
it was preferences for what to do when a double-click was done not being
available rather than the network screwing them up.

> Alternatively, you may just need to get gconf working in your xpra session.

Yeah, perhaps.

> That's... weird... Are you sure that you can't type into the password
> dialog, rather than the window that shows you typing simply being off
> the screen?

Well, I tried to focus and make sure I was in the dialog, but couldn't
get it to take keystrokes or unlock.  I ended up killing the
gnome-screensaver that was behind it.

> I'm not sure what we can do about this in xpra, in general. Obviously
> the quickest solution is just to disable the screensaver :-).

Indeed.  I think the gnome-settings-daemon started it up.

b.

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