On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:30:08AM -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:34:38 +1100 Justin Clift wrote: > > Whenever any gtk program has its menu open, keystrokes don't seem to > > be processed for anything other than what's in the menu itself. i.e. > > the up, down, and enter keys work (and maybe shortcuts), and that's > > it. (These keys move the selection up and down the menu that's open) > > > > There doesn't seem to be a way to gets other keys fed through to > > things expecting them. > > Yes, when gtk pops up a menu, it does a keyboard grab to ensure that > the menu gets all key events. > > > So, recommendations on what to do from here? Is there a way to tell > > GTK to feed keystrokes onwards when a menu is open? > > I don't believe so, no, but someone else may have a better answer.
I'm afraid the only way to tell Gtk+ to stop doing this globally is to patch it. Add this to ServerFlags section of xorg.conf: Option "AllowDeactivateGrabs" "true" and then press Ctrl-Alt-KP_Divide when you need to get rid of the grab. Yeti -- Whatever. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
