Re: "Command" pulldown menu doesn't work

Gary Young <[email protected]> writes:

> When I open a latex document in emacs, the auctex menu and toolbar
> appear as expected. I can use my mouse (a Synaptics touchpad) to
> reveal the pulldown menus for the categories "file," "latex" and so
> forth. The only exception is the category "command." When I double-tap
> on "command," nothing happens.
>
> I'm running emacs 21.4 and auctex 11.54 on gentoo linux. (I'm aware
> that there's an auctex 11.55, but 11.54 is the latest version in
> gentoo's "portage" system; in any event, at one point I tried hand
> installing 11.55 and had the same problem.)

There is a gentoo bug report about this at

  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18518

My solution to the problem appears there, posted on 2004-07-02, but
there are some more recent comments now, including this one, which, if
it works, is certainly much simpler than recompiling emacs:

  The problem with the Command menu not working is related to an obscure
  conflict with KDE. This is explained in detail at
  http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.windows.x.motif/browse_frm/thread/c20cc6d768acd666 
  
  The way I "fixed" the problem is to change the following line in
  tex.el from:
  (defconst TeX-command-menu-name "Command"
  to:
  (defconst TeX-command-menu-name "Commands"

The strange this about this is that we don't run KDE, so I'm not sure
why an obscure conflict with KDE would affect us.  Anyway, I'm posting
this here in case the auctex developers might be interested.

-- 
Brett Presnell
Department of Statistics
University of Florida
http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~presnell/

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