Bug 370 - Bad Wacom tablet behaviour when Workrave is active
Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Component:
Core :: Win32
Version:
1.4.1
Hardware:
PC Windows 2000
Importance:
P4 normal
Target Milestone:
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Assignee:
Raymond Penners
URL:
Depends on:
Blocks:
Reported:
Mar 30 2004 10:48:04 UTC
by:
Patrick
Modified:
Jan 28 2009 20:29:55 UTC
CC List:
Rob Caelers
WhoWhenWhatRemovedAdded
Clemens TolboomJul 3 2004 01:55:28 UTCblocks387
Rob CaelersAug 27 2007 14:03:42 UTCpriorityP2P4
Rob CaelersJan 28 2009 20:29:55 UTCccRob Caelers
statusNEWRESOLVED
resolutionWORKSFORME
Description
Patrick  Mar 30 2004 10:48:04 UTC
Every time a Workrave window pops up or when I right-click the tray icon so the
menu pops up my Wacom tablet behaves weird.

I have a Wacom Graphire 2 USB and I use it on a setup with 2 monitors. My right
(primary) monitor has the resolution of 1280x960. My left monitor is running on
1152x768. This causes the right half of my tablet to be active for the right
monitor and the left half of the tablet for the left monitor.

When I'm for example popping up the tray icon menu (which doesn't seem to
disappear without selecting one of the menu options) my tablet behaviour
changes. The left half of the tablet is suddenly working for the right (primary)
monitor. The right half of the tablet appears to be 'out of range' causing my
cursor to be at the most right pixels on my right monitor. The Y-axis reacts fine.

When I'm not having an active Workrave window everything is back to normal. That
is until I get a micropause popup. The micropause popup does not affect my
cursor until I'm actually taking the break. The actual Micropause break window
(with buttons skip etc.) starts causing trouble. Not a big problem as I'm
supposed to take a break anyway, but sometimes I have to wait a couple more
second after the micropause window disappeared.

(I'm running Windows XP, with Ultramon for the dual monitor support. A nVidia
Ti4200 with Dualhead enabled.)
Comment 1
Rob Caelers  Jan 28 2009 20:29:55 UTC
I'm closing this more than 4 year old bug because:

- I have never been able to reproduce it in past because I didn't have a tablet.
- I have not been able to reproduce it with version 1.9.0 and a Wacom Bamboo tablet.
- Workrave's activity monitor has changed a lot in the last 4 years. It has become less intrusive, It is very likely that the problem as you describe it is gone because of these changes

Feel free to reopen the bug if you still can reproduce the problem with a recent version of Workrave.