KDE Kickoff Menu Mouse click problems

aprofromindia · 2009-04-06 18:32:57

Hello guys -

I have noticed an weird effect in KDE 4.2.2 when I click the KDE menu Kickoff open and then click on some other window it doesnt minimizes itslef auttomatically but I have to go to the Kickoff menu opne button on the taskbar to minimize it any suggestions to this problem ?

Another quick one; when you are a non root user and try to access your other ard drive partitions you get thsi freedesktop hal permissions denied error; any quick solution to that problem. I have already added the user to group storage and optical!

Furthermore in Kubuntu when I used to open the Kickoff menu the mouse cursor used to - straight go to the search box; while for KDE 4.2.2 in Arch it doesn't which is quiet annoying.

Regards.

Last edited by aprofromindia (2009-04-06 18:46:45)

Flasher · 2009-04-06 18:36:14

I have the same KDE-Kickoff-Menu problem... maybe a bug

sud_crow · 2009-04-07 02:38:35

And there seems to be another "bug".
I use the Kickoff Search feature A LOT. And since 4.2.2, it isn't focused by default anymore. Even the ALT+F1 shortcut doesnt work.

After seeing this post, I searched a bit and found this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/271622

I'm about to try the proposed solution and see what happens.

kaola_linux · 2009-04-07 05:44:34

Same issues here as well, will be trying the said solution...:)

Rasi · 2009-04-07 06:23:13

That bugreport is only about opening kickoff with hotkeys - different issue. And yes, the mentioned method (last post) works, but not being able to make kickoff disappear with a click on the desktop remains. And btw, this is not only a kickoff problem - it happens with other applets too. And it does not happen with other Window Managers, so its either a plasma or kwin bug. or both

Last edited by Rasi (2009-04-07 06:23:55)

kaola_linux · 2009-04-07 07:45:38

The kickoff menu does appear when I use the hotkey, I just assigned it again with alt+f1 and then it worked..Yeah, you're right it is just the kickoff menu hotkey...There is a similar post about the kickoff menu not dissappearing when not on focused at the chakra forum, there was a link there pointing towards the bug...They have pointed out that the cause was kwin because when they have used another wm (compiz) the problem was gone...I guess I just have to wait for the fix unless someone had some workaround here...:)

Here is a link:
http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=640

Last edited by kaola_linux (2009-04-07 07:48:06)

SanskritFritz · 2009-04-07 08:41:48

kaola_linux wrote:

The kickoff menu does appear when I use the hotkey, I just assigned it again with alt+f1 and then it worked..

So, this means this workaround is bringing the keyboard focus back to Kickoff?
Anyone else can confirm, that the workaround above (reassigning Alt-F1 to Kickoff) works? I'm using Alt-F2 at the moment as workaround...

Rasi · 2009-04-07 08:56:26

SanskritFritz wrote:

kaola_linux wrote:
The kickoff menu does appear when I use the hotkey, I just assigned it again with alt+f1 and then it worked..
So, this means this workaround is bringing the keyboard focus back to Kickoff?
Anyone else can confirm, that the workaround above (reassigning Alt-F1 to Kickoff) works? I'm using Alt-F2 at the moment as workaround...

yes, reassigning works... but again: it wont bring back your keyboard focus

sud_crow · 2009-04-08 04:42:35

Here reassigning its not working.
Anyone using a multimonitor display?

I think this issues are all related. At least, to kickoff. Thats why I posted the one about the shortcut + focus on search.

kaola_linux · 2009-04-08 06:05:34

Does this happen to other distro as well using kde 4.2.2?

SanskritFritz · 2009-04-08 07:36:20

kaola_linux wrote:

Does this happen to other distro as well using kde 4.2.2?

See it yourself at the KDE bugreport http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188655

Last edited by SanskritFritz (2009-04-08 07:38:40)

ilpianista · 2009-04-14 12:37:30

SanskritFritz wrote:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188655

I applied the patch in kdelibs 4.2.2-4

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KDE Kickoff Menu Mouse click problems

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