Issue with clicking on context menus in gtk3 apps

kyuzial · 2023-11-03 16:21:52

Hello,

I've been experiencing an issue with apps using gtk3 where the number of clicks required for context menus and their items varies between 1, 2, 3, or 4 clicks instead of just one. This problem doesn't occur with QT apps or gtk2 apps(I only tested gimp), and I've even tested it with a different mouse.

I'm currently using hyprland on arch with an AMD graphic card, and the issue persists even when I switch to sway.
Additionally, I attempted to reset the gtk settings and using the X11 gtk backend, but the problem persists.
If someone would have an idea on how to fix this, I would be happy, thanks.

Here's a video with sound showing the bug, the top right is pcmanfm-qt and other apps are gtk3 (Problem also happen with firefox since it uses gtk) :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xkg302 … tJySj/view

Last edited by kyuzial (2023-11-04 16:42:57)

seth · 2023-11-03 16:25:27

Does it help to "export GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1"?

kyuzial · 2023-11-03 16:35:55

seth wrote:

Does it help to "export GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1"?

Thanks for you reply, I tried setting it in a terminal and launching apps but no it doesn't change anything. (Do I need to set the variable for the whole environment or is the way I used okay ? )

seth · 2023-11-03 16:38:22

You need to export it to the disfunctional client, ie.

GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1 gtk3-demo

would fix gtk3-demo - if this was related.

kyuzial · 2023-11-03 16:45:17

I tried exporting the variable to mousepad and thunar and I have the same behavior.

seth · 2023-11-03 20:11:01

Sanity check: does it also happen in an openbox (X11) session?

kyuzial · 2023-11-04 13:03:10

seth wrote:

Sanity check: does it also happen in an openbox (X11) session?

The behavior seems to be better. When I click slowly (waiting half a second after the menu is shown), there's no issue. However, when I click quickly, it's the same as when using Wayland.
Using X11 it's mostly improved, at least it's not entirely random but I don't really want to use X11.
I also tried on my laptop (intel graphics) having almost the same hyprland setup and I have the same issue.

seth · 2023-11-04 14:10:35

Using X11 it's mostly improved, at least it's not entirely random but I don't really want to use X11.

The point of that excercise was/is to narrow down on the inhibitor.

If you don't click multiple times in hyprland but just wait (maybe longer than on openbox, 25+ seconds), does that have the same effect?

However, I just checked the video - is this only about the main menu entries toggling the popup?
Cause that's (openbox behavior, like 500ms delay or so) is perfectly normal (for gtk3) - there's some cooldown phase and I don't remember it every being any different.

kyuzial · 2023-11-04 15:52:30

If you don't click multiple times in hyprland but just wait (maybe longer than on openbox, 25+ seconds), does that have the same effect?

When waiting longer, I still have the bug.

However, I just checked the video - is this only about the main menu entries toggling the popup?

It relates to both the main menu entries toggling the popup and the behavior within popups, I can experience the same behavior when clicking on entries.
This issue also occurs with the context menu when right-clicking, making it particularly annoying. When I click on an entry, nothing happens, requiring me to right-click again and select the entry to perform the action.
It seems to be a bug of gtk on wayland, since it doesn't happen on xwayland or xorg.
(I can make a video to show that if my explanation is not clear enough)

seth · 2023-11-04 16:10:52

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=279586 - "fixed", but your situation isn't /that/ bad.
Does it work "properly" w/ weston?

kyuzial · 2023-11-04 16:25:40

My issue is quite bad, having to open the right click menu multiple time because I can't click on an item is really annoying, on firefox when clicking on an entry, the popup doesn't disappear but I have to click multiple times(happen for select all option with text for example)
I tried using weston and kde and it seems to fix the issue, I guess it's a bug with wlroots since I have this issue on both sway and hyprland. Thanks for you help.

drankinatty · 2024-10-13 03:28:58

This is a late bump of this thread, but this is definitely a Gtk/GDK issue. I see the same on openSUSE. I don't use a desktop much on Arch, just servers. I can confirm that with apps like gnome-sudoku, clicking on the app the first time does nothing. Clicking a second time is required to get the app to recognize input. Then it behaves fine. This is on an X11 setup.

I do have to GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1 for Firefox and Thunderbird to allow middle-mouse scroll to work with the mouse set to "focus-follows-mouse". Otherwise the middle-mouse-scroll has no effect when Firefox or Thunderbird are not brought to the front as the top-level windows. Exporting GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1 solves the middle-mouse-scroll when other windows overlap Firefox or Thunderbird, but makes no difference with the gnome-sudoku not recognizing the mouse-click issue.

There are about a dozen bugs over the last 8 years or so this could be a regression of with GDK not being able to identify the correct window the mouse-event belongs to, and in that case simply discards the input. I have no firm answer yet on which bug or which regression this could be, but have a couple of bugs open on the Firefox/Thunderbird issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1907708 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1359226 and https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1230424

I hope a solution is found, this is a frustrating issue in Gtk apps for users not running gnome.

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Issue with clicking on context menus in gtk3 apps

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