Bug#1026465: filelight: defective after upgrade to 20.12.0-1

[Olaf Wolff <olaf.wolff@gmx.net>]

Aurélien COUDERC <libre@coucouf.fr> writes:

> Dear olaf,
>
> Le 20 décembre 2022 17:52:16 GMT+01:00, olaf <olaf.wolff@gmx.net> a écrit :
>>Package: filelight
>>Version: 4:22.12.0-2
>>Severity: normal
>>
>>Dear Maintainer,
>>
>>after upgrading to the current version filelight works only
>> rudimentary, that is, mouse clicks with the left mouse button to
>> navigate are no longer accepted and the call of the context menu
>> with the right mouse button is no longer there.
>>
>>To be on the safe side, I deleted all filelight files from all
>> directories and user directories and reinstalled filelight.
>>
>>The version filelight_20.12.0-1_amd64.deb still works fine.
>
> That'd really very peculiar.
> Both versions are supposed to be exactly the same besides an error
> in the Debian changelog in my 20.12.0-1 upload.
>
> Would you mind retesting back and forth between 20.12.0-1 and 20.12.0-2 and report back ?
>
>
> Thank you,

First of all I would like to mention, I had mixed up the version number in the mail heading, the defective version has the number 4:22.12.0-2. But you surely noticed that.

I suspect the malfunction is related to the pop-up that slides under the mouse pointer and thus intercepts the mouse clicks that are supposed to invoke the context menu. This pop-up "sticks" when switching workspaces, so that parts of other programs are overlaid by it and are no longer accessible at those points. If filelight is closed, the pop-up is also removed.

If my translation into English raises any questions please let me know.