Re: Re: is there a trick to getting the popup menu working

On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:45:36 -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote:
> Jeremy Hankins <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> popup menus aren't working for me, but only for certain menus -- 
>> like
>> window-menu, window-ops-menu, workspace-menu, etc.  It *seems* 
>> (though
>> I'm not positive on this yet) to be the menus that include closures 
>> that
>> are causing problems -- triggered by some librep change, maybe?.
>
> I'm starting to wonder if this is a gtk compatibility issue -- and
> possibly related to the problems compiling sawfish-pager?
>
> It seems that any menu which uses the "group" option causes 
> sawfish-menu
> to fail.  Looking at the sawfish-menu script, that seems to be for
> setting up some kind of gtk radio button thing.  I don't exactly see 
> why
> that's useful for sawfish-menu, though, since every time you select
> something the menu instance is gone, to be recreated next time you 
> use
> it.  But there's probably something I'm not understanding.
>
> The affected menus (that I know of) are: workspace-menu, window-menu,
> frame-type-menu and frame-style-menu.  But since these are included 
> in
> other menus, basically every default menu stops working if you're
> affected by this bug.
>
> --
> Jeremy Hankins <[email protected]>

Indeed those funcs where marked as deprecated in GTK+2. Maybe Ubuntu 
does compile
GTK+2 without deprecated symbols, while Debian does?

If I get the time I'll compare packaging scripts of gtk+ in Debian and 
Ubuntu.

Chris

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