From: BluPhoenyx <qu...@dc...> - 2003-10-12 01:54:42
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:00:38 -0400 Peter Geer <ge...@cs...> wrote: > Congratulations, Mike! You have the dubious distinction of being > the first person to report that the code for positioning the menu is > broken! > I didn't write that routine, though, so don't blame me! I normally don't use the top position for panels. I only noticed this while setting up a custom login. Perhaps we are the only ones using this. Then again, perhaps those who do use the menu always run the default 'bottom' panel. > But seriously, I noticed about a month or two ago that the menu > positioning code assumes the panel in on the bottom of the screen. I > just haven't gotten around to fixing it yet. I'll try to get to it > in the next minor release. Quite understandable. How about a simple option setting for now? Of course this doesn't even consider the case where the panel is on the side of the screen. > I can't get the menu to pop up above the screen, though I suppose it > could happen. I would have thought GTK would keep that from > happening, but perhaps it's a window manager thing. Who knows? It > does work properly with the panel on the bottom or when run as an > application, right? I tried this again with metacity kwin and pekwm. They all seem to be the same. I did notice that using a top panel on metacity was a pixel below the top. I could actually see the bottom of the menu panel. As a stand alone program, the menu always opens at the top, left corner of the application window. Like you, I would have thought the library would take care of this. Perhaps it's because the pop-up is hard coded. Sadly, I'm not too sure of the ins and outs of GTK. Ah well, no hurry on my account, I just changed the way things were setup and worked around the limitation. -- Cheers, Mike T. Linux user #169067 |