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Abort drag-and-drop from a busy program

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Mar 15, 20261316 views
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Problem

When the following happens: I start a drag-and-drop operation, starting from application ABC. Application ABC locks up (temporarily) I release the mouse button then, until application ABC finishes processing, I have the following problems: Other programs cannot "grab" the mouse pointer The drag-and…

Error Output

killall ABC

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Fix for: Abort drag-and-drop from a busy program

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In fact, it is possible to do this (at least with recent versions of X). You can do this by pressing the XF86Ungrab key, introduced in this commit. By default, this keysym is not bound to any physical key or key combination (it was disabled in 2012 …

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