bug#10008: emacs 24.0.91; mode menu aligns down only

bug#10008: emacs 24.0.91; mode menu aligns down only

[William Stevenson]

Compiled on Fedora 16 today and noticed the mode menu aligns down, so
when you perform this on a vertically maximised window you cannot see
the menu contents.

To reproduce:
emacs -Q
maximise window
click mode menu item

Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/Zns5o.png


In GNU Emacs 24.0.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.2.1)
 of 2011-11-09 on localhost.yhvh
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.11101000
configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> M-x r e p o <tab> - b u <tab> 
<return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec
mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045
ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mailabbrev mail-utils gmm-utils mailheader
emacsbug help-mode easymenu view time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe
lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar
mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian
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sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk
x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

bug#10008: emacs 24.0.91; mode menu aligns down only

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

10 nov 2011 kl. 04:43 skrev William Stevenson:

> Compiled on Fedora 16 today and noticed the mode menu aligns down, so
> when you perform this on a vertically maximised window you cannot see
> the menu contents.
> 
> To reproduce:
> emacs -Q
> maximise window
> click mode menu item
> 
> Screenshot:
> http://i.imgur.com/Zns5o.png
> 
> 

This must be something new with either Gtk+ 3.2 or Fedora 16.  Emacs does get the preferred size for the menu and adjust position accordingly.  If the menu lies abouts its preferred size, there is really not much more we can do.
The documentation for gtk_widget_get_preferred_size states:

  "t can be used to deduce toplevel window and menu sizes as well as child widgets in free-form containers such as GtkLayout."

Can you turn off the double arrows on the menu?  Probably not, since Gnome removes customization posibilities.
I don't see this as an Emacs bug, but a poor default in Fedora 16 and/or the theme you are using.
Having scrollable popup menus is just stupid.

	Jan D.

bug#10008: emacs 24.0.91; mode menu aligns down only

[martin rudalics]

 > This must be something new with either Gtk+ 3.2 or Fedora 16.

I'm 100% sure that I once read about this in a comment of a modeline
related Emacs routine.  But I can't find that comment anymore :-(

martin

bug#10008: emacs 24.0.91; mode menu aligns down only

[William Stevenson]

Your commit (revno: 106735) for bug#10361 fixed this bug.

bug#10008: emacs 24.0.91; mode menu aligns down only

[Jan D.]

William Stevenson skrev 2012-01-10 14:47:
> Your commit (revno: 106735) for bug#10361 fixed this bug.

Thanks for testing,

	Jan D.