Re: Ill-behaved pop-up menus

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Lokesh Setia <lsetia78 yahoo com> writes:
> 
> While doing some gtk+ programming, I noticed that opening a menu grabs
> the X11 mouse.  Any broken program can take control of the entire
> display this way, and even wm-shortcuts don't seem to work while the
> display is grabbed.  The only way I could find out to fix this is to
> login in a text console and kill the culprit program.
> 
> I'm not too sure if it is only a gtk+ way of popping up menus or it is
> in all X11 toolkits.

They all work this way. (As does Windows, I would guess.)

>  Also, is there any way in XFree86 by which the program that is not
> reliquinshing the mouse/display grab be killed?
> 

Just 'kill pid' from a terminal.

Havoc