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Bug 694471 - Right clicks have inconsistent behavior
Right clicks have inconsistent behavior
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: st
3.7.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-02-22 18:43 UTC by Hashem Nasarat
Modified: 2017-03-12 19:49 UTC
See Also:
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Description Hashem Nasarat 2013-02-22 18:43:38 UTC
In GTK+ apps, the behavior for right click is as follows:
1. Right click -> Open menu
2. Right click or left click anywhere else -> Close menu and don't act on the click 

On the desktop and dash, clicks while a menu is open properly close the menu, but the click is passed on to have additional actions.

In the notification area, only right clicks close the menu, and both left and right clicks are passed on to have additional actions.
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2013-02-27 00:21:48 UTC
*** Bug 694459 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Hashem Nasarat 2013-03-21 22:59:40 UTC
Also, in 3.7.92 if you right click an app in the dash and then left click the "Show Apps" button, the clicks don't register.
Comment 3 Florian Müllner 2013-03-21 23:26:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Also, in 3.7.92 if you right click an app in the dash and then left click the
> "Show Apps" button, the clicks don't register.

That's not a bug, clicking outside the source icon/menu should pop down the menu, nothing else.
Comment 4 Hashem Nasarat 2013-03-21 23:36:31 UTC
Sorry. Not only does the first left click not do anything, but subsequent clicks do nothing too.

App <- Right click
All apps icons <- Left click, left click, left click and nothing happens.
Comment 5 Matthias Clasen 2013-03-22 12:53:20 UTC
Lets keep the bug focused on one issue.
Which is it going to be:

- desktop background context menu
- message tray context menu
- dash right click menu / app toggle

?
Comment 6 Florian Müllner 2017-03-12 19:49:41 UTC
I'm closing this as obsolete:

(In reply to Hashem Nasarat from comment #0)
> On the desktop and dash, clicks while a menu is open properly close the
> menu, but the click is passed on to have additional actions.

I cannot reproduce this.


> In the notification area, only right clicks close the menu, and both left
> and right clicks are passed on to have additional actions.

The message tray was removed in 3.16.


(In reply to Hashem Nasarat from comment #2)
> Also, in 3.7.92 if you right click an app in the dash and then left click
> the "Show Apps" button, the clicks don't register.

Fixed in bug 748919.