Drag & Drop not working on Linux

Owned by Stefan Prelle
Sept 06, 2019
1 min read

Problem

Dragging an element inside Genesis does not work.

In an eventually open console a log message like this appears:
(java:19472): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 13:13:27.413: gsignal.c:2523: signal 'expose-event' is invalid for instance '0x7fb5084b8500' of type 'GtkWindow'

Solution

No solution yet, since this is a problem rooted in Java(FX) and GTK3 itself.

See here: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211302

So, unfortunately there is no workaround for every scenario. In some circumstances double-clicking the element to drag is a valid alternative.