On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:38:40PM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 10:41:38AM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:28:39PM -0500, Len Philpot wrote: > > > > > * How to prevent the menu selection from automatically following the > > > mouse pointer and vice-versa > > > > Use a different window manager ;-) Like it or not, fvwm's menu > > handling is tightly coupled with the position of the pointer. > > Unless you'd like to spend about a month to change that you can't > > do anything about it. > > > > I am afraid that I do not understand the question and the answer.
Len refers to fvwm's habit to warp the pointer to the selected menu item when using the keyboard. > But, the following behavior is interesting: popup a menu A with an > entry _e which popup a sub-menu B. Popup the menu B, then click on the > entry _e. Then the menu selection does not follow the pointer on the > menu A and its parents neither on the submenus that B can popup (to > activate an entry in these menus just click on it). The mouse pointer > is followed only in menu B. To "dynamically" restore the default > behavior just re-click on the entry _e. That's a feature. Clicking on a submenu entry locks the selection in that submenu until you click somewhere else. The patch was inspired by the way menus worked in netscape 4.x. > Something like "MenuStyle * PopupOffset -6 100" may help. There are > also others "popup" options to MenuStyle that you would like to use. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: 0721/91374-382 Schlund + Partner AG, Erbprinzenstr. 4-12, D-76133 Karlsruhe -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
