have to hold+click to access left click menus in XFCE4-panel for GTK

OB4Life · 2014-10-18 10:35:56

Hey, everyone. So since a day or two i now have to hold down the left mouse button to keep things like nm-applet menu open when activated from the XFCE4-panel system tray.

This only seems to effect gtk apps in XFCE4 panel. I have tried other panels to hold the system tray, and the menus work as expected for gtk apps: i click once and the menu stays open until i select something, eg, an available network in nm-applet.

Quite annoying, especially since i have a mix of kde and gtk apps in system tray so the inconstancy between them is frustrating.

There were a few gtk related updates recently, i have tried downgrading many of these packages to no avail.

Anyone else experiencing this behaviour?

Cheers.

runical · 2014-10-18 11:44:47

I noticed this as well, but is only seems to happen when using GTK3 programs, not GTK2. I also saw that the radio buttons and tick boxes are no longer showing their values. Do you also see these problems?

toz · 2014-10-18 12:25:03

Its the recent gtk3.14 upgrade thats doing this. I'm also noticing large window decorations on gtk3 apps. Every major upgrade of gtk3 breaks something for non-gnome users. Downgrading the gtk3 package (and re-starting nm-applet in this case), fixes the problem. Temporarily.

If you don't want to downgrade gtk3, you can install gtk2 versions of gtk3 apps from the AUR (e.g. network-manager-applet-gtk2).

runical · 2014-10-18 12:30:22

toz wrote:

Its the recent gtk3.14 upgrade thats doing this. I'm also noticing large window decorations on gtk3 apps. Every major upgrade of gtk3 breaks something for non-gnome users. Downgrading the gtk3 package (and re-starting nm-applet in this case), fixes the problem. Temporarily.
If you don't want to downgrade gtk3, you can install gtk2 versions of gtk3 apps from the AUR (e.g. network-manager-applet-gtk2).

That fixes it. Let us now hope that this crap will not continue.

OB4Life · 2014-10-18 14:29:48

Nice one. I wasn't rolling gtk3 back far enough. Using a 3.13 release now and is working.

That there are black boxes drawn around gtk3 apps in XFCE4-panel for a few seconds after login is annoying, but really i am just being fussy.

Here's holding out for a fix.

justasug · 2014-10-18 18:13:24

Has this bug been reported to the GNOME developers and confirmed? Either way, I'll hold on and hope it gets fixed soon.

GSF1200S · 2014-10-18 19:55:46

Same issue for nm-applet in xfce4-panel. Looks to be a gtk3 theme issue as per this bug report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149335

Later Im going to try and dig through revisions made since 3.13 gtk3 and see if I can fix the problems with a patch via ABS.

Korrode · 2014-10-28 08:54:09

We've got a patched version of nm-applet in Manjaro Unstable branch as of now.
Package source is here:
https://github.com/manjaro/packages-ext … ger-applet

It applies the patch from this bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149335

It will build and work the same for Arch. Other than applying the patch, it's no different than the current Arch package source.

Note the patch is described as 'dirty' and the author states "Note that I have no clue what I'm doing ", so YMMV, lol... I only just added it to Manjaro repos so i don't have any feedback from our Unstable branch users yet, but so far for me it works fine.

GSF1200S · 2014-10-29 04:21:17

Korrode wrote:

We've got a patched version of nm-applet in Manjaro Unstable branch as of now.
Package source is here:
https://github.com/manjaro/packages-ext … ger-applet
It applies the patch from this bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149335
It will build and work the same for Arch. Other than applying the patch, it's no different than the current Arch package source.
Note the patch is described as 'dirty' and the author states "Note that I have no clue what I'm doing ", so YMMV, lol... I only just added it to Manjaro repos so i don't have any feedback from our Unstable branch users yet, but so far for me it works fine.

Excellent thank you! Hopefully upstream actually chooses to fix the problem, or give us an option to choose the behavior. Built this and it works great

Carl Karl · 2014-10-29 08:35:16

Edit:
Seems to be a coincidence and not a related problem. --> you can forget about this:

I don't know whether this is related, but since I applied that Manjaro patch, I got a 1min udev wait for device hang on boot:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1470540
It maybe is related, because there seems to be some waiting for the wifi device. Going back to libnm-gtk-0.9.10.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz and network-manager-applet-0.9.10.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz from /var/cache/pacman/pkg didn't change that problem.
As I said, don't know whether this is related or not.

Edit:
Seems to be a coincidence and not a related problem. See linked thread if interested.

Last edited by Carl Karl (2014-10-30 00:48:56)

TE · 2014-11-15 01:27:53

FYI, the recent GTK3 update seems to have fixed this (or one of the other updates) -- my menu now stays open with a standard single click. Alas, I wasn't tracking it closely enough to know exactly which package it was, so I'll assume gtk3-3.14.5-1.

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#1 2014-10-18 10:35:56

have to hold+click to access left click menus in XFCE4-panel for GTK

#2 2014-10-18 11:44:47

Re: have to hold+click to access left click menus in XFCE4-panel for GTK

#3 2014-10-18 12:25:03

Re: have to hold+click to access left click menus in XFCE4-panel for GTK

#4 2014-10-18 12:30:22

Re: have to hold+click to access left click menus in XFCE4-panel for GTK

#5 2014-10-18 14:29:48

Re: have to hold+click to access left click menus in XFCE4-panel for GTK

#6 2014-10-18 18:13:24

Re: have to hold+click to access left click menus in XFCE4-panel for GTK

#7 2014-10-18 19:55:46

Re: have to hold+click to access left click menus in XFCE4-panel for GTK

#8 2014-10-28 08:54:09

Re: have to hold+click to access left click menus in XFCE4-panel for GTK

#9 2014-10-29 04:21:17

Re: have to hold+click to access left click menus in XFCE4-panel for GTK

#10 2014-10-29 08:35:16

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#11 2014-11-15 01:27:53

Re: have to hold+click to access left click menus in XFCE4-panel for GTK

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