[RP] ratmenu now dies when it looses focus (v2.0)

[Jonathan Walther]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 05:39:12PM +0100, Rupert wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:52:28PM +0200, Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote:
> >
> > >b) The option of making ratmenu die as soon at it looses focus.
> >
> > How can a program RELIABLY detect when it's window is no longer on top?
> > Purely reacting to mapping events is easy; is there a coresponding unmap
> > event that acts the same way so I don't have to poll every second?
>
> I've tried to make a patch, but I have my doubts about how reliable this
> is as there is a mysterious FocusOut event generated when ratmenu fires
> up. But it seems to work for me.
>
>  http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~levene/ratmenu-focusout.diff

Thanks for your patch.  I discussed it with Shawn and used a different
configuration event as the trigger for killing ratmenu, but it has the
effect.

I also used a different option; instead of making it a special option I
made it the default.  If you want the original behavior, where the menu
persists like a regular window, you use the -persist option.  As with
all options, it must go BEFORE you start putting the menu entries and
their related commands on the command line.

I have uploaded ratmenu-2.0 to the debian archives, and the ratmenu
tarball will be available on the Debian website shortly.

Although I didn't use your patch directly, Rupert, it helped clarify to
me what needed to be done, so I added you to the CREDITS in the comments
at the head of ratmenu.c

Cheers!

Jonathan

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