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> From actd Wed Sep 3 11:17:08 1997
> Subject: Re: FVWM: Selected menus disappear?
> To: fvwm_at_hpc.uh.edu
> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 11:17:08 +0100 (BST)
> From: "Bob Plester" <actd_at_merlin.london.waii.com>
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> > 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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> >
> My solution is as follows:
> As a menu is just a special window use editres to get the window name
> Use Style to make them StayOnTop
>
> This is not exactly an "elegant" solution but it seems to work.
>
> Regards,
>
>
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All,
Please ignore the my last message
BECAUSE
it seems NOT to work.
Sorry,
Bob.
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