Bug#813795: tecnoballz: Paddle cannot be controlled, it keeps on sticking on the left side of the window

[Aldo Maggi]

I've found a solution on an Ubuntu forum:
killall unclutter

It works.

Thanks

Aldo

Il 05/02/2016 12:13, Aldo Maggi ha scritto:
> Package: tecnoballz
> Version: 0.93.1-6+b1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>     * What led up to the situation?
> I could not play this game because the paddle continues sticking on the left
> side of the window
>
>     * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective?
> I've noticed that keeping pressed the right mouse button the paddle could be
> controlled
>
>     * What was the outcome of this action?
> Now it works, but there are some problems: keeping the right mouse button
> continuously pressed is tiring, when the glue option (i.e. the ball sticks to
> the paddle) is on, I cannot use this function for better controlling the
> paddle, the ball is launched immediately (as it is when the "glue" option is
> not in use), in some shooting features the bullets start circling in the same
> spots, I've to release the right mouse button to let them go on (but the paddle
> goes immediately to the left)
>
> I do not think this last features (the "glue" bonus and the "bullets circling"
> in the same spots) are so important, so I
> wonder if it is possible to give the players experiencing the bug the
> possibility to mimic the keeping pressed the right mouse button via the menu
> "options" while starting the game.  BTW the same problems affects LBreakOut2
> and
> Zaz (I'm opening bugs also for them) but not Gnome BreakOut.
> Thanks,
> Aldo
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>    APT prefers testing
>    APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages tecnoballz depends on:
> ii  libc6              2.21-7
> ii  libgcc1            1:5.3.1-7
> ii  libmikmod3         3.3.8-2
> ii  libsdl-image1.2    1.2.12-5+b5
> ii  libsdl-mixer1.2    1.2.12-11+b1
> ii  libsdl1.2debian    1.2.15-12
> ii  libstdc++6         5.3.1-7
> ii  libtinyxml2.6.2v5  2.6.2-3
> ii  tecnoballz-data    0.93.1-6
>
> tecnoballz recommends no packages.
>
> tecnoballz suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>