On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 08:26:22AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I have a Kensington trackball, which means I can click a mouse > button without touching the ball, and there is absolutely > no mouse movement when I click. > > When I do such a mouse click on the window decoration "close" > button, I see the button animation as it appears to be > depressed and spring back up which makes me believe > it did indeed see both the press and release events. > > But fairly often, the window will just sit there, not > closing till I finally touch the trackball and cause > some mouse movement event, then the window finally pops > out of existence. > > Clearly this is the worlds most unimportant problem, but > I just got curious about it, so I thought I'd ask if > anyone knows something that would cause this.
It's either a hardware problem (trackball broken) or the X server is doing something strange (not deliver the button release event unless there is some mouse motion). I've seen thing like this before, caused by both. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt