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

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> 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.

Patched metacity is incoming shortly.

Peter