Marcelo Ramos wrote:
> Hi to all:
>
> I have a the following problem with xmaxima:
>
> The problem is that I can't use the menus. When a menu pops up I can select
> an element and click on it but nothing happens. When I click one element the
> menu closes, in the other window managers if I click and keep the mouse pointer
> over the menu it doesn't close. Other strange thing: when I open a menu, it
> overlap with the interactive window of maxima. If I click an element of the
> menu the interative window prompt appears where I clicked!!! That is, the click
> didn't affect the menu, but affected the interactive window that is behind the
> menu.
>
> Well, I have tested xmaxima with kde, gnome, twm, etc and the problem appears
> only
> with xfwm.
>
> I'll appreciate ideas or hints. I need xmaxima to work and need to get rid of
> this problem. I don't want to migrate to another wm.
>
> The following is one comment I received in the xfce mailing list:
>
> #########
> I've just had a look at the source code for xmaxima, and it seems to build
> menus
> from scratch, rather than using the usual Tk menu widgets. Now, it may have
> very
> good reasons for doing things that way (e.g. it may have been originally
> written
> several years ago under a very old version of Tk that didn't support menu bars,
> or
> around the time Tk 8.0 introduced a new menu bar mechanism, but xmaxima still
> needed to run on old versions of Tk); but obviously, the more unusual the code,
> the
> less likely it is to work.....
> ########
>
> Is someone in this list using xmaxima with xfce? Has the same problems?
>
> TIA
>
> Regards,
> Marcelo.
>
> --
>
I don't use xfce on regular basis but I have it installed
on Linux machine. I've just checked - xmaxima works
fine on it. But I remember that I had similar problems
with xmaxima menus on KDE with earlier versions
of xmaxima. Latest version from CVS is much better.
Vadim
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[ Vadim V. Zhytnikov <vvzhy@mail.ru> <vvzhy@td.lpi.ac.ru> ]