#762988 xserver-xorg-core: clicks to root window are flakey

Package:
xserver-xorg-core
Source:
xorg-server
Description:
Xorg X server - core server
Submitter:
Samuel Bronson
Date:
2014-09-26 20:15:11 UTC
Severity:
important
#762988#5
Date:
2014-09-26 20:11:07 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I'm having a strange problem with clicks on the root window.

Often, clicking on the root window fails to generate the appropriate
events.  This causes severe problems with those traditional WMs where
most of the UI is in a menu normally reached by clicking on the root
window.

The worst part: sometimes it *does* work.

I *think* that messing with the xrandr configjuration is an one of the
things that affects this, but I can't swear to it, and it's not anything
nearly so simple as "works before adding a second monitor".  (So much
for the idea that it had something to do with non-rectangular display
layouts.)

Sorry I can't be more specific about what's going wrong, but it could be
relevant that my CPU is an "Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G3220 @ 3.00GHz",
since, as I understand it, my GPU is in there somewhere too.