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olsztyn
Those are design decisions, ones which IceWM has uniquely held not just for a few years, but for a couple of decades.
Thank you Brian!
I am all for freedom in general and freedom of designers to decide their design in particular. If such design happens to be a pain to affected users then users have the freedom to live with such unfortunate design choice or change to another product. My opinion is that IceWM is very good in general and is worth accepting certain unfortunate design choices, especially that they can be mitigated with certain parameters as those discussed.Therefore I do not mean to drag this ‘dragging’ issue in IceWM beyond what I already stated above, in particular I am not sure this was a design choice but rather it looks like a bug, as there is simply no object selected to be dragged in order for ‘drag’ function to be invoked.
Thanks again and Regards…Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_ParametersModdIt
Hi olsztyn,
If you had always used pure icewm you would never have seen the dragging issue at all. We have T410, T420, t430
along with plenty of other laptop netbook and desktop systems so a lot of experience, several thousand hours for sure.I took a look at the problem out of interest not need.
You wrote in the original post that you use spacefm-icewm. without changing desktop I could not reproduce the issue you described.
I only found how to fix the problem for you after reading spacefm handbook and experimenting with mouse sensitivity settings..
Icewm brings up menu on right click. Spacefm the design menu. The interaction/effect seems to come from conflicting setup.
Fix: lower mouse sensitivity to movement was enough.
Please do not blame Icewm which is the most effective and trouble free WM I have ever used and supported.
Brian Masinick
This would probably also work.
To restore the native window manager menu, open Desktop preferences
$ spacefm –desktop-pref
and enable the Right click shows WM menu option in the Desktop tab. Consider adding the above command to a keybind and/or the native desktop menu for easy access.
If you had always used pure icewm you would never have seen the dragging issue at all.
Hi ModdIt…
As I mentioned a few times in my posts I moved to pure IceWM (from Space-IceWM) already some time back due to that ‘Space’ related hand artifact, for which I still have not seen any explanation, although logic suggests it was related to Move function of ‘Space’.So I have been on pure IceWM for quite a while and IceWM behavior and my comments were on pure IceWM, nothing to do with Space hand.
I am kind of tired of further discussing this topic in the face of persisting resistance of antiX team to any notion of IceWM bugs or other opportunities to improve behavior.As I said before, adjustment of discussed previously parameters, which you suggested originally (thank you!) made this IceWM bug (sorry… behavior) not coming up in practice, unless you explicitly want to show it exists.
To close this topic I want to emphasize again that after the adjustments I made I am now happy with IceWM and antiX and it is no longer concerning me that some bugs exist, regardless if any care on the side of antiX team to resolve them, as long as they are not affecting usability of antiX anymore.
Thanks again and Best Regards…Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_ParametersRegarding nobody interested: Bob C wrote,
I would offer to clean up the IceWM settings and include your tweaks while doing so, and then we could test the result, and once everyone was happy with them, he could include it in the repos.anticapitalista changed the default settings you mentioned which means new installations will not be affected.
I have at no time had complaints come in about buggy or quirky behaviour in Icewm which we use almost exclusively, except for reading the posts here in forum. And figured out what was happening.
If that is lack of interest I really do not know what your wishes are. Anyways, live in peace.
For all readers:
Devs and users can only help and fix reproducible issues, many of which can be caused by just changing one setting in the Icewm config or setup in menu tool then saved. Or by applications grabbing input. Which is for one example, an issue with firefox messing with multimedia keys.Give clear and concise information, Include all changed settings or where possible a copy of the (Icewm) configuration file or files so that faults if present can be reproduced on other machines, isolated and fixed.
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