On Tue, 2 Sep 1997 09:16:06 -0600 (CST)
Merlin Hansen <Merlin.Hansen_at_Develcon.com>
wrote concerning 'Re: FVWM: Selected menus disappear?':
> > 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)?
You're correct.
This definitely occurs as a result of using FvwmAuto with a reasonably
large timeout. I've been experimenting with this as a result of the
same problem occuring with the Pager balloons. The only solution so far
is to keep the FvwmAuto timeout small (order of 100 msec), or wait a bit
longer before pulling down a menu immediately after entering the window.
Ric
Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Phone: +1 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
Web:
http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~ric/
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Received on Tue Sep 02 1997 - 10:24:58 BST