Package: awesome
Version: 3.0~rc6-1
Severity: normal

When a floating window is snapped to the edge of the screen and being
dragged away, aewsome apparently expects a certian level of mouse
accelleration to overcome the edge resistance and unsnap it. This
doesn't feel right to me (awesome 2 felt ok).

In particular, I can drag the mouse pointer slowly all the way across
the screen attempting to get the window to move, and if I keep the
accelleration low, it never moves. I have to really hit the track pad
hard to get sufficient acceleration to unsnap the window.

One especially annoying case is this:

|<-------- tiled window ----------------------> <------ tiled window ----->|
|                                               <-- floating window -->    |

In this case the floating window is snapped to the left side of the
tiled window. I want to move it to be against the right side of the
screen. To do so, I have to accellerate the mouse a lot. More than I
actually want to move the window to put it where I want it. So I end up
doing this:

|<-------- tiled window ----------------------> <------ tiled window ----->|
|                                                          <-- floating win|

I don't know if you just need to tune the numbers, or if the whole model
needs improvment. Seems to me that if I drag the mouse N[1] pixels, it
shouldn't matter how fast I dragged it, it should always unsnap. 

[1] Where N is lower than the minimum distance one typically wants to
    move a window, but larger than the amount one might accidentially
    move it when dragging it in the perpendicular direction.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages awesome depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-13         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.6.4-6        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libev3                    3.43-1         high-performance event loop librar
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.16.5-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.12.11-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liblua5.1-0               5.1.3-1        Simple, extensible, embeddable pro
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080913-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.20.5-2       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libreadline5              5.2-3          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.1.5-1      X11 client-side library
ii  libxcb-atom0              0.2.1+git1-1   utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-aux0               0.2.1+git1-1   utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-event0             0.2.1+git1-1   utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-icccm0             0.2.1+git1-1   utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-keysyms0           0.2.1+git1-1   utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-property0          0.2.1+git1-1   utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-randr0             1.1-1.1        X C Binding, randr extension
ii  libxcb-render-util0       0.2.1+git1-1   utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-render0            1.1-1.1        X C Binding, render extension
ii  libxcb-xinerama0          1.1-1.1        X C Binding, xinerama extension
ii  libxcb1                   1.1-1.1        X C Binding

Versions of packages awesome recommends:
ii  x11-xserver-utils             7.3+5      X server utilities

awesome suggests no packages.

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