RE: changing workspaces while dragging confuses gtk

[Shahms King <shahms shahms com>]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 09:28, martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:
> > > Exact version of GTK+? This is supposed to work, and there is a lot
> > > of code in GTK+ whose sole purpose is to make it work, though there
> > > was a problem for a while with event handling (I don't remember the
> > > details) that was keeping it from working.
> > 
> > This is with the CVS version of Gtk+ (as checked out by jhbuild
> > yesterday).  Given that there is no (current) way of switching
> > workspaces while dragging (keyboard shortcuts don't work, etc.), there
> > isn't any easy way of testing said code.  If you (or anyone else)
> wants
> > to test it, the patch to libwnck for switching workspaces while
> dragging
> > is in bug #136698 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136698).
> 
> Can you set up a keyboard shortcut to switch desktops?  I set my desktop
> up to switch using Alt+<num> for each desktop (Windowmaker uses that I
> think).
> 
> Regards,
> Martyn 

Yes, they are currently set to the defaults
(<Ctrl>+<Alt>+{Left,Right,Up,Down}) but those won't work while you're
dragging something (I assume this is because Gtk+ grabs the keyboard
while dragging for things like "<Esc> cancels drag").

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Shahms King <shahms shahms com>