Drag and drop behavior

[Dana Olson]

On 2/8/06, Lukas Sabota <punkrockguy318 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Christian Neumair wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2006, 15:19 -0500 schrieb Lukas Sabota:
> >
> >>  As a click on an icon and move the mouse, the shortcut is
> >> appended to my cursor even while I am not clicking the mouse.
> >>
> >
> > To me this sounds like an input device driver bug. Maybe you could run
> > the "xev" application in a terminal (using alt-f2), and verify that for
> > many subsequent mouse events (including click-drag-release) the
> > ButtonRelease event is emitted?
> >
> >
> >
> Yes, the ButtonRelease events are being emitted properly.  It seems like
> a GNOME bug.
>
> God Bless,
> Lukas
>


It happens to me often as well. Frequently in the Gnome menus or in
Firefox, at least under Breezy. Haven't noticed yet on Dapper, as I
just installed it the other day to test.

Dana