Re: Firefox field autocomplete drop-down menu annoying problem

"Bradan J. Wolbeck" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ctwm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oct 15, 2019, 15:41 by [email protected]:

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> I don't know whether you encounter this problem or not, but in my      case (Linux or FreeBSD, with ctwm and without any session manager      nor desktop), the field autocomplete feature of firefox is very      annoying as the drop-down menu of possible completions appears      just over the field itself.
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This issue has pestered me quite a bit, as my new tab page has a search field that gets obstructed any time I would type in it.

> I made a patch to make it works with ctwm too and it fixes the      problem:
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This did the trick for me! (Using the version with only the _NET_FRAME_EXTENTS in there.)
Thanks for the patch!

(I have a pair of attachments showing the difference for anyone who hasn't encountered the issue for themselves.)

Regards,
Bradan J. Wolbeck
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