Description of problem: Upon upgrading to metacity-2.5.3-3, I found that when I left-click on the menu bar of a window to drag it, sometimes it won't move. If I immediately left-click on it again, then it moves. If after left-clicking on it once, if it doesn't move, if I move the mouse pointer somewhere else and then left-click again, the window suddenly jumps to the new location. I verified that this is associated with metacity by downgrading to the original Severn version (metacity-2.4.55-5). Upon restarting X, the problem was gone. After upgrading back to metacity-2.5.3-3 and restarting X, the problem came back. I am using the default Gnome desktop with all updates in the Severn updates channel up to September 13. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): metacity-2.5.3-3 How reproducible: Sometimes (although if one tries it with several different windows, it doesn't take long to get it to happen at least once). Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to drag a window by left-clicking on its menu bar and moving the mouse. Actual results: Sometimes it won't move. If it doesn't move, then if one moves the mouse pointer somewhere else and clicks again, the window will suddenly jump to the new location. Expected results: The window should always move immediately in response to the mouse pointer. Additional info:
I think I'm experiencing the same bug. I get the following behaviour: 1. I click the window border (and after that I release the mouse button) 2. I move the pointer away from the border 3. After about one second the window jumps down to a position about 20 pixels beneath the mouse pointer and after that it follows the pointer (still 20 pixels beneath) until I click again somewhere else. This happens about 50 percent of the times. It's very irritating when I click a window border to raise that window I suddenly have that window moving all over the screen.
All of the above confirmed on my system (Severn + current RawHide) It seems to happen more often with certain windows, after starting Gnome and opening an xterm, dragging the new window by it's title will almost never work on the first try. Mozilla, for example, is almost always draggable, but the window often follows the cursor when I just clicked the title to activate the window. Very annoying.
The new package metacity-2.6.2-1 fixed the problem for me.
Fixed in 2.6.2 for anyone else?
The "window does not respond when being dragged" seems fixed for me. There is still an issue with clicking the title to raise the window, and the window then sticking to the cursor, but I'll open a new bug for that.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104262 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.