[openbox] Openbox context menu not working

General general at musically.me.uk
Sat Mar 26 19:33:16 EDT 2016


On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 00:18:56 +0100
Johan Vromans <jvromans at squirrel.nl> wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 22:46:33 +0000
> Piscium <groknok at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have been using Openbox for years with Fedora. I upgraded from
> > Fedora 21 -> Fedora 23 late last year, and since then I have an odd
> > problem: the Openbox menu stops working some hours or days after
> > reboot. By "Openbox menu" I mean the menu that appears when I
> > right-click on some place where there is no window. When this happens,
> > the scroll wheel stops doing its usual thing which is to switch
> > workspaces. Alt-Tab still works. Also the mouse works as normal within
> > a window.
> > 
> > I tried "openbox --restart" (which in the past fixed minor issues for
> > me) but it has no effect with this particular issue.
> > 
> > I am using Openbox v. 3.6.1.
> > 
> > Any ideas?  
> 
> Exactly the problem I mentioned last year:
> 
> > From: Johan Vromans <jvromans at squirrel.nl>
> > To: openbox mailing list <openbox at icculus.org>
> > Subject: [openbox] Disappearing menus
> > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 08:38:42 +0100
> > 
> > I'm running OpenBox on Fedora 22 with Mate. I have menus configured for
> > mouse buttons 1, 2 and 3. All works fine. Most of the time.
> > 
> > Sometimes suddenly the menus are gone. To be more precise: I can click
> > the mouse buttons but nothing happens.  
> 
> In the mean time I have gotten a suspicion that it is related to
> installing/upgrading packages, but no solution ...
> 
> -- Johan

Hmmm.
I've had this as well, but only when some app or service has crashed.

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