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

[Simon Schampijer]

On 06/14/2012 06:21 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 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
>

Great, thanks Peter! I can test then as well the "this should be fixed 
now" case, so far I only tested the new 'metacity-message' command not 
available one successfully.

Regards,
    Simon