[racket] DRRacket right-click menu fragility in Linux.

From: Vincent St-Amour (stamourv at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 1 16:44:41 EDT 2012

I'm having similar issues on Debian squeeze and wheezy and Ubuntu
12.04.

Vincent


At Thu, 1 Nov 2012 16:32:30 -0400,
Ray Racine wrote:
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> When editing racket code in DR the right-click menu is very fragile on
> Linux (Ubuntu 12.10).  Upon right-clicking the menu pops up, but more often
> then not quite promptly vanishes.  I can't pin down a repeatable set of
> conditions.
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> Sometimes I can't get it to stay open at all, other times if I right-click,
> pop the menu and make an effort not to move the cursor for a full second or
> two and then carefully move the cursor to the desired menu option I'm OK.
>  But this technique is problematic in success.
> 
> I did a compare and contrast with right-click menus in Chrome and there is
> a noticeable difference in the stability.
> 
> Ray
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