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Facey

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Windows style context menu behaviour

I'm coming from a Windows environment and am trying to set up the UX in a very similar way to Windows.

With Windows (Win32 context menus that is), another right-click will open another context menu whilst removing the old one.*
It seems that in Xfce this is not the case - another right click simply closes the currently open context menu. Additionally, when opening a context menu on the titlebar, the context menu opens within the window itself, not exactly on the titlebar where the user clicked.

Is there a way for another right click to open another context menu and close the old one, and for the titlebar to be opened exactly where the user clicked? TIA

*It seems that Windows is slowly losing this behaviour too as MS move away from classic Win32 UX

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Windows style context menu behaviour

With Windows (Win32 context menus that is), another right-click will open another context menu whilst removing the old one.*
It seems that in Xfce this is not the case - another right click simply closes the currently open context menu.

This is by design in GTK3. One context menu will grab all input until it is closed.

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