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23.1.50; Clicks on the scrollbar registered as clicks in the window

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From: Ignacy Gawedzki <i <at> lri.fr>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 5058 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5058: 23.1.50;	Clicks on the scrollbar registered as clicks in the window
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:04:51 +0100

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:03:36PM +0100, thus spake martin rudalics:
> > When clicking on the scrollbar, the clicks are registered by emacs as
> > clicks *inside* the window, thus moving the cursor and possibly
> > selecting text (when moving the scroll slider).
> 
> Can you repeat this behavior with Emacs -Q ?
> 
> [...]
> 
> Does it happen if you do not load ...
> 
> > Loading /opt/users/ig/.emacs.d/follow-mouse.el (source)...done

Absolutely.

It appears at least with GTK scroll bars, I tried to recompile the package
with --without-toolkit-scroll-bars and the problem was gone.  The problem
appears with the version installed in Ubuntu Karmic, 32bit as well as 64bit
version.  It wasn't happening with Ubuntu Jaunty.

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