I have an XFCE setup with three X11 displays (:0.0, :0.1, :0.2) and a desktop on each. [Not a single desktop spread across all three displays.] When I "right click" on the desktop, the desktop menu sometimes pops up on the wrong display. Instead of popping up where I did the "right click", it seems to pop up on the screen on which I most recently did a "left-click". If I always "left-click" on the desktop a couple times before the "right-click", then the menu pops up where it should. This problem makes xfdesktop difficult to use in a multi-display setup. Reverting from xfdesktop 4.12 to 4.10 fixes this problem.
More specific version info... I noticed this bug in 4.12.2 (which is not available as a choice in bugzilla). The bug is not present in 4.10.2 (I haven't tried 4.10.3, 4.12.1 or 4.12.0)
In my case (4 screens, 2 desktops) pop-up menu is always on first desktop, it is never shown on the second - wherever I clicked before. Everything else as in previous reports. Downgrade to 4.10.2 fixes the problem.
Seeing this on Ubuntu 15.10 with 4.12.3 as well. Had working config with 4.10.3 on Fedora 20 though. Had filed an Ubuntu bug before I saw this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfdesktop4/+bug/1514527
Interesting, in my case, reverting just xfdesktop to 4.10 from ubuntu 14.04 does NOT fix the issue. Grant, did you downgrade all of xfce, or just xfdesktop?
IIRC, I first tried downgrading just the desktop. But,q because of library dependancies ended up downgrading 1-2 other things. Here's what I'm current runing on Gentoo: x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce-3.2.0-r200 x11-themes/xfce-gant-icon-theme-3.9_p6 x11-themes/xfwm4-themes-4.10.0 xfce-base/libxfce4ui-4.12.1-r2 xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.12.1 xfce-base/xfce4-appfinder-4.12.0-r1 xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.10 xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.12.0 xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.12.1 xfce-base/xfce4-settings-4.12.0 xfce-base/xfconf-4.12.0-r1 xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.10.2 xfce-base/xfwm4-4.12.3 xfce-extra/xfce4-clipman-plugin-1.2.6 xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer-4.11.0 xfce-extra/xfce4-notifyd-0.2.4
Just did some further testing that may help track this down. Reason downgrading on ubuntu didn't help is that I wasn't paying close attention and downgraded to 4.11, and not 4.10 since 4.10 wasn't in the package repository. What this indicates to me is that the problem was introduced between 4.10.x and 4.11.6. Now that I can reproduce the fix, I'll take a look and see if I can bisect for you. (Assuming I can get xfdesktop built.)
Here's when it broke: commit c102646246a09f93431c37499b40f9e49ae1b783 Author: Eric Koegel <eric.koegel@gmail.com> Date: Tue Oct 8 14:56:35 2013 +0300 Right click issues persist (Bug 9323) This patch uses the gtk_grab_add/remove functions to handle grabs prior to a menu popup. Additionally, the menu will pop up on the button press event if there's no conflict (i.e. right click DND). Trying to see if I can figure out the specific problem, but if someone familiar with this code could
My guess on this is that the underlying problem is the change from - if(gtk_widget_has_screen(GTK_WIDGET(desktop))) - screen = gtk_widget_get_screen(GTK_WIDGET(desktop)); - else - screen = gdk_display_get_default_screen(gdk_display_get_default()); to just using the gtk_grab functions. That altered code likely isn't tolerating a different display for the widget...
Is anyone looking at this issue?
Is this till broken? I'm still running xfdesktop 4.10 to avoid this problem, but that is starting to cause problems.
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