#452404 deskmenu: no mouse action

Package:
deskmenu
Source:
deskmenu
Description:
A root menu for X11 window managers
Submitter:
Date:
2022-06-25 09:54:18 UTC
Severity:
important
Tags:
#452404#5
Date:
2007-11-22 15:59:16 UTC
From:
To:
deskmenu does absolutely nothing for me when any mouse button is
clicked.  I tried explicitly giving the -b<n> option, no difference.
Starting with Control-Escape works.

Let me know if I can give any more useful information.

#452404#10
Date:
2007-11-22 18:25:01 UTC
From:
To:
Hello Ian,

Am 22.11.2007 um 16:59 schrieb Ian Zimmerman:

which window manager do you use?

Greetings

Stefan

#452404#15
Date:
2007-11-23 15:25:09 UTC
From:
To:
Ian> deskmenu does absolutely nothing for me when any mouse button is
Ian> clicked.  I tried explicitly giving the -b<n> option, no
Ian> difference.  Starting with Control-Escape works.

Stefan> which window manager do you use?

That was oroborus, I believe.  I have since passed over it and I am trying
openbox which is a bit less strict about the minimalism :-)

#452404#20
Date:
2007-11-23 16:07:45 UTC
From:
To:
Hello Ian,

Am 23.11.2007 um 16:25 schrieb Ian Zimmerman:


very strange, because I guessed its working with oroborus - and I've
used it several years ago with oroborus - but it won't work with any
other window manager, because the proxy window, on which deskmenu
depends, is no longer supported, so the click on the root window wont
work. Btw, do you run gnome, or some other program, which displays
its own root window, and may create problems?

Greetings

Stefan

#452404#25
Date:
2007-11-23 16:24:48 UTC
From:
To:
Stefan> very strange, because I guessed its working with oroborus - and
Stefan> I've used it several years ago with oroborus - but it won't work
Stefan> with any other window manager, because the proxy window, on
Stefan> which deskmenu depends, is no longer supported, so the click on
Stefan> the root window wont work. Btw, do you run gnome, or some other
Stefan> program, which displays its own root window, and may create
Stefan> problems?

No gnomes here, thank you :-) .  All I do with the root window is to set
the background wallpaper.  But I think I tried to disable that and it
didn't make a difference.

#452404#30
Date:
2007-11-23 16:54:50 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Ian,

Am 23.11.2007 um 17:24 schrieb Ian Zimmerman:

hm, I need to test that, very strange. I must admit, I haven't used
Oroborus and Deskmenu for quite some time (currently I either use Mac
OS X or Compiz).

Greetings,

Stefan

#452404#37
Date:
2013-10-28 17:51:47 UTC
From:
To:
tag 452404 + patch
thanks

I had trouble with the mouse button not working too with either oroborus
or fvwm.

Nosing around the code I think the main loop may sleep in a select()
when there's still X events in the queue.  Does that select do anything?
It looks worryingly like a cut and paste from desklaunch or keylaunch
which re-read their rc file on a signal.  Perhaps in deskmenu it's not
needed at all (since the rc file is re-read on each popup).

I also found for some reason the XSelectInput lost from the proxy window
when the popup is run, which made the second and subsequent button press
not work.  Dunno why, might have to put it under xmon to see exactly
where is to blame.  It helps for me to reinstate it after each popup per
below.

#452404#44
Date:
2022-06-25 09:50:29 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package deskmenu has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1012421

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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