Well, all I can say I can confirm this.
I gone into how I can run a window manager from user mode (not wanting
to mess with my production system), so I downloaded and built the
current stable version (0.95.6) of WindowMaker with the default settings
(that is, not fiddling with anything, just configure - make - make
install). Running this version of WindowMaker the problem vanishes.
To confirm it since I just did the window maker switch with inserting a
restart into xterm into the right click menu, keeping the offending page
open in Firefox, I exited the window manager. In this state in Firefox
these drop down menus won't react to clicking on them (won't drop down).
From there starting up Debian's version (0.95.3), the Firefox window
regained the ability to drop down, however the bug appears again.
For an another take, I dug up 0.95.3 from the repo, compiled it, and
made a test run with it. Bug appears.
So it pretty much shows that whatever is going on inside Firefox somehow
depends on the window manager running (I hope even if the bug is not
reproducible, it is reproducible that without a window manager these
dropdown menus won't drop down, well, maybe an another bug on the part
of Firefox, although Opera also shows similar behaviour), and apparently
something in the past three versions of WindowMaker changed which
affects this behaviour, thankfully fixing it in the current version.
Now somebody please save me from that billion of windows the many
restarts managed to open (having applications in startup scripts is
apparently not a good idea when testing window managers).
So:
Bug appears fixed on 0.95.6. On the same system building 0.95.3 from
source reproduces the bug while 0.95.6 with the same settings don't.
Jubatian
09/12/2014 05:19 PM keltezéssel, Torrance, Douglas írta:
On 09/12/2014 02:14 AM, Jubatian wrote:
Hi!
I found a not too critical, but certainly annoying bug apparently
residing in WindowMaker after several days of experimenting revealed.
It is described in the attached BUGFORM, as provided in the
WindowMaker source distribution.
I wasn't able to reproduce the bug using the webpage in your tarball.
However, I think I may have seen the bug before on other webpages. All
of a sudden, dropdown menus in Firefox stop working. I've found that
miniaturizing and then deminiaturizing the window fixes the problem.
I'm not sure if this is even a Window Maker bug, as dropdown menus don't
seem like something a window manager would handle.
By the way I found the web address provided in the bugform, and an
other found somewhere in the FAQ apparently dead, so hope this gets
through. I really like this window manager, too bad it is so hard to
send any feedback for it.
I just submitted a patch to update the BUGFORM. The FAQ is really out
of date. I submitted a proposal a few months ago to update it, and the
work is ongoing.
Doug
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