13.10 mouse in GNOME apps

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi CHris,

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Chris Luck <chris at bvhg.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> On 31/10/13 11:15, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Girard Henri <girardhenri at free.fr>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 28/10/2013 10:49, Chris Luck a écrit :
>>>
>>>> On 26/10/13 14:09, Glenn Holmer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anybody else noticed the mouse not working right in GNOME
>>>>> apps (like Synaptic)? What I'm seeing is that a) the scroll
>>>>> wheel doesn't work at all, and b) clicking in the scrollbar,
>>>>> instead of paging up or down, jumps directly to the place you
>>>>> clicked. I'm seeing it on four different machines so far, so I
>>>>> don't think it's a configuration issue.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm seeing that in Synaptic but not in other gnome apps. (i.e.
>>>> Audacity, Gimp).
>>
>>
>> There appears to be a problem with the oxygen-gtk theme, if you
>> switch to a plain oxygen theme or any other it works fine.
>
>
>
> Myriam,
> It isn't clear which topic you are responding too, you have answered to
> Girard but quoted Glenn & myself. So are you referring to a vanishing
> mouse pointer, scrollwheel/scrollbar issues or both?

Probably both, but for that to know you folks need to try what I
suggest: switch to plain oxygen theme instead of the oxygen-gtk and
see if that helps. Easy enough to do :)


Regards, Myriam

-- 
Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE:
http://www.fsfe.org
Please don't send me proprietary file formats,
use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300)