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Enabling Mouse / "Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed" causes Firefox tab copy opens a new windows
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Description
* Cinnamon version (cinnamon --version)
Cinnamon 5.4.12
* Distribution - (Mint 21, Arch, Fedora 37, etc...)
Mint 21
* Graphics hardware *and* driver used
Using this: Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915
v: kernel
Device-2: AMD Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 M430 Radeon
520 Mobile]
driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Device-3: Microdia Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X:
loaded: amdgpu,ati,modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915
resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5
* 32 or 64 bit
64 bit
In Firefox originally, when the one hold Crtl and and pull the the tab on tab bar it copies the tab. When the Mouse / "Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed" option is enabled in seetings of Cinnamon it creates a new window and put the tab here.
Steps to reproduce
- Enabling Mouse / "Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed"
- In Firefox push ctrl and pull a tab in tab bar
- it creates a new windows with the pulled tab
When disable Mouse / "Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed" it creates a new tab on tab bar.
Expected behaviour
Copy the selected tab.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with Cinnamon 5.4.12, Mint 21, Firefox, and the Mouse setting enabled, then compare the tab-drag behavior with the setting disabled. Trace the Cinnamon handling for “Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed” alongside the Ctrl-drag interaction. Done means Ctrl-drag copies the selected tab instead of opening it in a new window.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
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