@JD: Ah, understood. Good to know, thanks :)

-Andrei "Garoth" Thorp

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Nikos Ntarmos <[email protected]> wrote:
> FWIW I've come to believe that Java menus sort-of "hardcode" their
> position in the display (or awesome doesn't inform the app correctly of
> its position?).  You can click on a menubar item to open a menu but then
> what seems like a non-working mouse is due to the fact that the menu
> expects the mouse to be elsewhere. Just open one of the "misbehaving"
> applications (my example of choice is JBidWatcher) in a floating tag
> without any positioning adjustments (centering, offscreen, overlap, etc)
> and click on, say, "File". Then drag your mouse downwards to presumable
> select one of the choices there, and see where the focus goes. Then move
> the application to some other part of the screen and repeat. You'll see
> that the focus won't be moving with the mouse, unless you wander the
> pointer (keeping mouse1 down) to the area where the "file" menu had
> opened the first time around.
>
> I've intended to look into this for quite some time but can't seem to
> find a time slot with my new job and all. For the time being I'm working
> around it by activating the menu with the mouse, keeping mouse button 1
> down, and then navigating with arrow keys from the keyboard (or going in
> keyboard-only mode, if the app supports it).
>
> Cheers.
>
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