Re: address@hidden: [21.2.90]: Lesstif menu placement after frame resize]

[Harald . Maier . BW]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Are there any X wizards out there who might be able to
> investigate this?

No, I am not a wizard, but I noticed this too with the Solaris CDEs
(Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 8) and with a old GNU/Linux CDE. It seems
that this is specific to the CDE desktop.

Harald

> From: "Marshall, Simon" <address@hidden>
> Subject: [21.2.90]: Lesstif menu placement after frame resize
> To: 'Emacs Pretest Bug' <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:29:34 +0100
>
> In GNU Emacs 21.2.90.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6, GNU/LessTif Version 2.1
> Release 0.93.36)
>  of 2002-09-19 on perth
> configured using `configure  --prefix=/rvcarma/marshals/slash/usr/local
> - --x-includes=/usr/openwin/include:/rvcarma/marshals/slash/usr/local/incl
> ude:/rvcarma/marshals/slash/usr/local/include/X11
> - --x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib:/rvcarma/marshals/slash/usr/local/lib:/rv
> carma/marshals/slash/usr/local/lib/X11 --with-x-toolkit=motif'
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: en_UK
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: en_UK
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: C
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: en_UK
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_UK
>   value of $LC_TIME: en_UK
>   value of $LANG: en_UK
>   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>
> I've seen this with earlier Emacs & earlier Lesstif versions, but I
> thought I'd gripe about it now...
>
> With the above build configuration, start emacs -q.
> Open the Tools menu; it drops down below the Tools menu name.
> The menu is top left aligned with the bottom left of the name.  OK.
> Resize the frame (wider or smaller) from the left edge.
> Open the Tools menu.
>
> Now it drops down below where the Tools menu name used to be, not
> where it is following the resize.
>
> In case it's relevant, this is with Solaris CDE 1.2 via Exceed 6.2.
> It applies to any of the menus, including Help.