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Bad right-click behavior with context menus [message #331665]

Mon, 15 September 2008 21:18

Eclipse User

Hello,

I am running Eclipse 3.4 GTK, Ubuntu Linux 8.04 in a virtual machine with
VMware Workstation 6.0.5. Java 1.5. The host system is Windows Vista. I
have a similar setup on a Dell Studio laptop and a Dell Inspiron 518
desktop. The following behavior happens on both. I am running the
vmmouse mouse driver.

At times when I right-click to bring up the context menu, the mouse
automatically selects a menu item and the context menu disappears. I can
get around this by holding down the right mouse button, hovering over my
selection, and releasing the button. This is, however, a pain. This
happens both in the project tree and in the editor window. It is more
likely to happen when the context menu bottoms out on the screen and the
mouse pointer is in the middle of the menu rather than the top.

Any help or troubleshooting ideas would be appreciated.

Ben

Re: Bad right-click behavior with context menus [message #331689 is a reply to message #331665]

Tue, 16 September 2008 10:45

Eclipse User

Hi Ben,

Does this behaviour happen in other gtk2-based apps in your VMWare image?
If so then the problem is either local or a bug in gtk. If you don't see it
elsewhere then please log a report with SWT (
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Platform &component=SWT ).

Grant

"Ben Tomasini" <ben.tomasini@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:3785ff49e61d4a1a608f4f63761496f1$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hello,
>
> I am running Eclipse 3.4 GTK, Ubuntu Linux 8.04 in a virtual machine with
> VMware Workstation 6.0.5. Java 1.5. The host system is Windows Vista. I
> have a similar setup on a Dell Studio laptop and a Dell Inspiron 518
> desktop. The following behavior happens on both. I am running the
> vmmouse mouse driver.
>
> At times when I right-click to bring up the context menu, the mouse
> automatically selects a menu item and the context menu disappears. I can
> get around this by holding down the right mouse button, hovering over my
> selection, and releasing the button. This is, however, a pain. This
> happens both in the project tree and in the editor window. It is more
> likely to happen when the context menu bottoms out on the screen and the
> mouse pointer is in the middle of the menu rather than the top.
>
> Any help or troubleshooting ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Ben
>
>
>

Re: Bad right-click behavior with context menus [message #336981 is a reply to message #331689]

Sat, 18 July 2009 00:15

Eclipse User

Hi everyone,

I am experiencing this annoying problem too. And this problem only appears
when i use Eclipse. Other applications such as OpenOffice, Firefox, etc.
are ok. Have anyone found a solution yet?

Thanks for reading my question.

Sasuke.

Re: Bad right-click behavior with context menus [message #336982 is a reply to message #336981]

Sat, 18 July 2009 00:19

Eclipse User

I am sorry. The original message reporting this problem is:

> Hello,
>
> I am running Eclipse 3.4 GTK, Ubuntu Linux 8.04 in a virtual machine with
> VMware Workstation 6.0.5. Java 1.5. The host system is Windows Vista. I
> have a similar setup on a Dell Studio laptop and a Dell Inspiron 518
> desktop. The following behavior happens on both. I am running the
> vmmouse mouse driver.
>
> At times when I right-click to bring up the context menu, the mouse
> automatically selects a menu item and the context menu disappears. I can
> get around this by holding down the right mouse button, hovering over my
> selection, and releasing the button. This is, however, a pain. This
> happens both in the project tree and in the editor window. It is more
> likely to happen when the context menu bottoms out on the screen and the
> mouse pointer is in the middle of the menu rather than the top.
>
> Any help or troubleshooting ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Ben
>
>
>

Re: Bad right-click behavior with context menus [message #336993 is a reply to message #336982]

Mon, 20 July 2009 06:13

Eclipse User

Hi,

I used Eclipse on this ubuntu version and did not get this problem at
all. I don't think it's a GTK problem. Can you try with Ubuntu 8.10 or
better 9.04 to see if this happens too ?

For me this is more related to a VMware Workstation problem than Ubuntu,
cause I used eclipse from 3.2 to 3.5 with ubuntu from 8.04 to 9.04
without this problem.

Laurent Marchal.

sasuke a écrit :
> I am sorry. The original message reporting this problem is:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am running Eclipse 3.4 GTK, Ubuntu Linux 8.04 in a virtual machine with
>> VMware Workstation 6.0.5. Java 1.5. The host system is Windows
>> Vista. I
>> have a similar setup on a Dell Studio laptop and a Dell Inspiron 518
>> desktop. The following behavior happens on both. I am running the
>> vmmouse mouse driver.
>>
>> At times when I right-click to bring up the context menu, the mouse
>> automatically selects a menu item and the context menu disappears. I can
>> get around this by holding down the right mouse button, hovering over my
>> selection, and releasing the button. This is, however, a pain. This
>> happens both in the project tree and in the editor window. It is more
>> likely to happen when the context menu bottoms out on the screen and the
>> mouse pointer is in the middle of the menu rather than the top.
>>
>> Any help or troubleshooting ideas would be appreciated.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
>>
>
>

Re: Bad right-click behavior with context menus [message #507325 is a reply to message #336993]

Tue, 12 January 2010 17:46

Eclipse User

I also see this behavior when running eclipse within a vmware virtual machine. I am running Eclipse build 20090621-0832 on Ubuntu 9.04 inside a vmware server 2.0 virtual machine. I'm running a Windows XP host.

Did anyone find the solution to this?

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