Re: [Notion-general] Right mouse click and tab bar menu

[Steven H. <sd...@gm...>]

Thanks Philipp.

As I seemed to be tagging and attaching windows more often of late, 
I did end up defining keybindings to do so (which is so much more 
effective than groping with a mouse :-)

Steven

Excerpts from Philipp Hartwig's message of 2013-01-31 10:37:57 -0500:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry for the long delay.
> 
> > While I don't often use tagging to manipulate windows (simple enough to
> > drag tags across multiple screens), sometimes it's handy to use the tab
> > bar menu items.
> >
> > Is there a way to configure the tab bar menu to be toggled on (or off
> > if nothing is selected) vs needing to hold the right mouse button down
> > to select a menu entry. This option would just be a bit more convenient
> > while using a track ball mouse or tablet.
> 
> Unfortunately this currently doesn't seem to be possible. There was a 
> discussion with the subject "Mouse Click Context Menu Instead of Mouse Down" 
> on the ion-general mailing list and Tuomo had to say this:
> 
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 07:54:33PM +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> > It's not possible. pmenu only works when the pointer is already
> > grabbed. Maybe it would be possible to extend it by specifically
> > grabbing again and adding other kludges. Add it to the Ion3+ wishlist
> > if you want, but I don't personally care.
> 
> If this is important for you please file a feature request, maybe someone will 
> implement it. 
> 
> You are aware though that there are easy key bindings for tagging and 
> attaching a tagged client, right? You could also add a binding
> for
>   mod_menu.menu(_, _sub, 'ctxmenu') 
> to the WFrame section of cfg_notioncore.lua. You could bind this to a key
> or use the mclick function to bind it to a mouse button. However the menu then 
> appears in the bottom left corner of the frame by default, so this is not 
> exactly what you want. But maybe one of these solutions is acceptable for you?  
> If not feel free to file the feature request. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Philipp
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