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

From: Laurent (laurent.orseau at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 2 10:18:16 EDT 2012

Shouldn't you click and stay clicked for the menu to remain visible? That's
how it works on my Ubuntu in DrRacket, and I thought it was normal behavior.

Laurent


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > 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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