Bug 71893

Summary:	System Settings > Mouse icon brings up random items
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Gerry Tool <gerry>
Component:	rhpl	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	bfox, notting, srevivo
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Description Gerry Tool 2002-08-20 01:53:19 UTC

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Description of problem:
Selecting Gnome > Start Here > System Settings > Mouse and entering root
password on prompt causes mouse to jump to the desktop or the panel and activate
a menu that is normally activated by the right mouse button.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.in Gnome, select Start Here > System Settings > Mouse
2.Enter root password when prompted
3.Observe action
	

Actual Results:  Mouse cursor jumps to desktop background or panel.  A menu
opens that would normally be activated by the right mouse button being pressed.
It may even try to select and icon and move it.  Most times, the mouse dialog
does not appear.  Once it did appear and I was able to make a change.

Expected Results:  Mouse selection dialog should open and allow changing of
mouse type.

Additional info:

I have a wireless Logitech Mouseman+ PS/2 mouse which has worked normally with
the two previous betas and with RH7.3.  I installed fresh batteries and repeated
test with same results.

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2002-08-20 16:56:59 UTC

The probing actually happens in the rhpl package, which makes a call to kudzu. 
I'm going to change the component to rhpl, although the problem may lie with the
way that kudzu probes the mouse.

katzj, is there any way to avoid this?

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-21 06:40:23 UTC

Not unless we don't probe.  This might actually be the right thing to do for
redhat-config-mouse -- try to read /etc/sysconfig/mouse and if that fails,
fallback to a probe (unless Bill has any better ideas)

Comment 3 Preston Brown 2002-08-21 15:10:20 UTC

Why doesn't this happen at install time?

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-21 15:56:48 UTC

The installer probes before we start X

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-22 05:59:34 UTC

Fixed with the combination of redhat-config-mouse-0.9.10-1 and rhpl-0.45-1

Comment 6 Jeremy Katz 2006-04-24 18:30:53 UTC

Mass-closing lots of old bugs which are in MODIFIED (and thus presumed to be
fixed).  If any of these are still a problem, please reopen or file a new bug
against the release which they're occurring in so they can be properly tracked.