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mdcclxv

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[SOLVED] [SORT OF] Bad right click behavior in KDE

Hi all,

My problem is that more often than not, when I right-click something I accidentally also invoke the first item in the context menu.
There are two functional aspects here, each of them blatantly wrong:

1. Context menu pops up on right-click-press (instead of right-click-release).
2. The right mouse button invokes menu items in context menus (instead of doing nothing).

Is there any possibility that I can alter any of the above without modifying source code and recompiling?

Thank you in advance.

Last edited by mdcclxv (2023-06-26 12:40:38)

markboston38

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Re: [SOLVED] [SORT OF] Bad right click behavior in KDE

im assuming your using a trackpad? go into settings trackpad and you can change what clicking certain parts of the trackpad does.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] [SORT OF] Bad right click behavior in KDE

The actual problem and what's not supposed to happen is that the menu pops up below the pointer (instead or right/below) - unless you accidentally move the pointer when pressing the button.

If this happens w/ regular QWidget QMenu's, the style is gonna be somwhat relevant, as it can define the margins of dead area in the popup.
=> Do you use breeze or some other style? And what is an actual example where this happens?

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mdcclxv

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Re: [SOLVED] [SORT OF] Bad right click behavior in KDE

This behavior is being exhibited on any right-click where there is a context menu available. Bu the most annoying place is in PhpStorm (which is a Java app): I right click a file tab to split it, but the very first item in the tab context menu is Close. And yes, I am moving the mouse after click, it's a reflex, since the Split item is a couple of items bellow.

I'm using QtCurve.

On Windows the context menu only shows up on mouse button release. And the right-button doesn't do anything in the popup menu. It seems to me that KDE folks thought this completely wrong.

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] [SORT OF] Bad right click behavior in KDE

PhpStorm (which is a Java app) … On Windows … seems to me that KDE folks

This has **nothing** to do w/ KDE or windows; the logic is entirely implemented in the client (in this case Java), but opening context menus on the press is the common (I guess "traditional") way on *nix systems which is

I am moving the mouse after click

probably not very a11y-friendly.
You can emulate the mouse completely on the keyboard
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Access … Mouse_keys
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/X_keyb … se_control

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mdcclxv

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Re: [SOLVED] [SORT OF] Bad right click behavior in KDE

opening context menus on the press is the common (I guess "traditional") way on *nix systems which is

I am moving the mouse after click

probably not very a11y-friendly.

After more than a year of using KDE, I think I finally got it. This is, to use CEO words, a paradigm shift. I think the intended use case is right-press-and-hold, navigate the context menu, then right-release on the desired item. It's too cursive like this to be a coincidence. So, I owe some apologies to the KDE folks. I guess I'll have to un-train my brain from Windows habits.