Is there a way to disable the "window detach on drag" feature?

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#1

Hello everyone,

I am trying to use Ardour as a field recorder on a tablet. This tablet has a pen digitizer, so I am exclusively using the pen for control. When I try to switch windows using the 4 buttons in the upper-right corner, I almost always accidentally detach the window if I wiggle even 1px in any direction. Is there any way to disable this functionality?

Alternatively, I would also be okay with it if it were less sensitive (i.e. only activating if I release the “mouse button” outside of the bounds of the UI button, but i’d prefer to just turn it off if possible as I will never use this functionality and I only ever trigger it on accident even on my PC.

Thanks,
–Tyler

#2

There’s no way to do it other than modify the source code. Which we ought to do.

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#3

Ah, okay. Thanks for the quick answer! I’ll just stick with the menu bar for now.

Is there anywhere I should open an issue for this?

#4

Yes please. I took a look at the code, and its not a trivial fix. tracker.ardour.org is where bug reports etc. get filed. Unfortunately it requires a separate login from this site.

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#5

Ok, thanks for looking into this for me! I’ve submitted a bug – 0010446: Window detach on drag is excessively sensitive - MantisBT