mouse menues appear at screen bottom
Stefan Kamphausen
I'm using XEmacs 20.4 on Linux (SuSE 6.1).
Usually I open one Xemacs just for the Mail (VM 6.47) and News
(Gnus). In this incarnation I sometimes encounter the problem of
right-mouse-button-context-menus appearing far away from the
mouse pointer: right below the modeline. I posted this to the VM list
before and Kyle told me it's probably a more general XEmacs problem.
So I did mind my steps and today the problem arose again.
This is my ...uhm... brain-powered backtrace of what I've done to that
point:
- login (to a newly booted linux box, because the current broke down
this night)
- start XEmacs from my .fvwmrc like this: (in the INIT section)
+ "I" Exec xemacs -geometry +0+864 -f vm
- read 5 mails in VM, replying to three of them
- start Gnus and read 4 mailing lists
- in one list an article was marked with an 'O' and in the tree-window
top-right with ***. When moving the mouse over the article it became
black (sorry, I don't quite understand Gnus very well yet, I just
started with it some weeks ago and used the introduction by Robin
S. Socha at http://socha.net/Gnus/ for configuration.
- then I hit the right mouse button in the tree-window and the menu
appeared at the bottom of my xemacs just below the modeline.
since then every menu appears far away from my mouse pointer. Actually
I recognized this behaviour before without using Gnus (uhm, I'm almost
sure I did)
Maybe someone can read something from my humble description. Or tell
me how to give better information. Sorry for bad english, i'm not a
native speaker
regards
kampi
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Stein A. Stromme
| Hi,
|
| since then every menu appears far away from my mouse pointer. Actually
| I recognized this behaviour before without using Gnus (uhm, I'm almost
| sure I did)
If I right-click, the menu always pops up in the bottom right corner
of the screen, regardless of size or position of the Xemacs
window/frame. XEmacs 21.1 on SuSE 6.1 here. Does not seem to depend
on gnus or vm or anything, it happens on the very first buffers opened
by XEmacs even with the -q option.
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Stefan Kamphausen
Uhm, sorry for not testing this before...
The menu appears always at the bottom of current screen, even if the
XEmacs window is very small and at the top.
Stefan Kamphausen
Is it possible that the problem has something to do with
set-mouse-position
?
In the description it says:
Note also: Warping the mouse is contrary to the ICCCM, so be very sure
that the behavior won't end up being obnoxious!
Thus there may be some mess with fvwm2 or something?
Jan Vroonhof
> before and Kyle told me it's probably a more general XEmacs problem.
I think it is, because 21.1.x does this always.
> + "I" Exec xemacs -geometry +0+864 -f vm
The problem is the +0+864 part. For some reason, XEmacs adds the
offset again for popup-menus.
Jan
Stefan Kamphausen
Hmm,
stupid me: I never thought about the fact, that that's the only
instance of Xemacs I call with --geometry ... Thanks for that!
But still: what's the reason for the phenomenon appearing sometimes
and not always?
Jan Vroonhof
> stupid me: I never thought about the fact, that that's the only
> instance of Xemacs I call with --geometry ... Thanks for that!
> But still: what's the reason for the phenomenon appearing sometimes
> and not always?
If only we knew. That "problem" has been fixed in 21.1.x. It does this
always.
Jan
Stefan Kamphausen
> > But still: what's the reason for the phenomenon appearing sometimes
> > and not always?
>
> If only we knew. That "problem" has been fixed in 21.1.x. It does this
> always.
*grin*