@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. > > \n\n > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
