Re: Mode line menus

[Chong Yidong]

David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden> writes:

> David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
>> Chong Yidong wrote:
>>
>>> and that's all.  Once in a while, the menu seems to pop up and stay up.
>>> But this happens very occasionally.
>
> Behaviour seems to vary depending on the distance of the modeline
> from the bottom of my display.  If the modeline is too close to the
> bottom of my display, the popup does not stay open on click.
> GUI toolkits tend to treat menus close to screen edges specially
> to ensure they are shown entirely on-screen, so there's certainly room
> for window-location-dependent bugs.

I have checked in a fix for this bug.  The problem, apparently, is that
GTK tries to automagically determine how to pop down the menu based on
the event timestamp, which we were not passing to it.