[compiz] Rotate/edge-flip and jumping mouse pointer

[David Reveman]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 19:46 -0400, Jose daLuz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using running Xgl/compiz on Gentoo/AMD64/2006.0, with
> xgl-0.0.1_p20060418 and compiz-quinnstorm-0.0.9.3 on Gnome 2.14.
> 
> I love the edge-flip feature of rotate, but I sometimes have a problem
> where, after edge-flipping the mouse pointer seems to jump to the
> opposite window edge which starts rotating the cube to the next
> desktop, so I start moving the pointer back, whereupon it jumps back
> to where it was and starts rotating back to the first desktop, the one
> I started to rotate from. This may happen 2 or 3 times with the cube
> rotating back and forth until it finally "calms down" and I have full
> control of the rotation again.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be a mouse accelleration problem, i.e. I can be
> moving the pointer very slowly and it will still happen. It's almost
> as if the wm loses track of which edge the pointer is near and places
> it the same distance from the opposite edge.
> 
> This happens intermittently, but it's incredibly annoying when it does
> occur. Has anyone else seen this? Is there any other information I can
> give to help track this down?

This should never happen anymore with current CVS version of Xgl and
compiz. Let me know if it's still a problem.

> 
> -- 
> Joe daLuz 
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-David