[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] sugar-session: disable Metacity mouse button modifiers (OLPC#11781)

[Simon Schampijer]

On 06/07/2012 05:28 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Metacity provides "mouse button modifier" functionality which lets
> you drag activity windows around the screen, amongst other things.
> This is something we want to disable, similar to how we disable
> metacity's key bindings.
>
> In recent metacity releases, Alt is the default mouse button modifier.
> We especially want to disable this functionality in this case because
> Sugar uses Alt for other things, such as launching a new activity
> instance (rather than a journal entry) from the home screen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>

Hi Daniel,

thanks for the patch. As far as I understood it depends on a fix in 
metacity in order to work, your patch does log a warning if the 
'metacity-message' option is not available, so no harm in landing it. 
However this should be noted in the commit message.

Cheers,
    Simon