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

From: Stephen Chang (stchang at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 4 19:11:43 EST 2012

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> I've pushed a fix to this. Thanks to Matthew for looking into it and
> sorting it out and sorry for the delay.

I'm using git head and I'm still seeing this problem (Ubuntu 11.10). I
can't reliably reproduce it but in case it helps, it most recently
happened when I selected tack arrows and now I can't bring up the menu
to untack the arrows anymore.



>
> Robby
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Ray Racine <ray.racine at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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