Re: FVWM: Selected menus disappear?

From: Merlin Hansen <Merlin.Hansen_at_Develcon.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 09:16:06 -0600 (CST)

> I often remark following behaviour of fvwm2:
> When clicking on the menu bar of an application, the pull-down menu
> appears for a tenth of a second or so, and afterwards disappears
> directly. No, it does not disappear in reality - as one can see if
> the application window is very small and the pull-down menu is very
> big (bigger than the window), the pull-down menu appears *behind* the
> application's window!
>
> Ciao, Thomas

Hi, I noticed this also and did a little experimenting to come up with a
theory...

Do you run autoraise? I do. I believe what is happening in my case is
that I mouse to a new window and hit a button. The pull-pull down menu
appears, then the auto-raise timer expires and raises the main window above
(infront) of the pull-down menu.

How do I support this theory... if I click anywhere in the main window that
cancels the button then hit the button again the pull-down appears and
stays there.

My solution : with my autoraise set to .5 seconds I usually wait out the
timer whenever I switch windows before hitting a button.

Do you notice the same pattern as I do (menu never disappears if main
window has focus for longer than autoraise timer)?

Merlin
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