#1 2020-12-05 07:56:07

ed32

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Menu

Hi,

Is it possible to make the main menu show for longer before a selection is made? Currently, the menu disappears too quickly.

Thanks.

Last edited by ed32 (2020-12-05 07:57:13)

rbh

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Re: Menu

Is it possible to make the main menu show for longer before a selection is made? Currently, the menu disappears too quickly.

You have a standard Lithium installation and your menu is jgmenu?

Mine jgmenu does not disappear until I have made an selection or pressed Esc.

If you post your ~/.config/jgmenu/jgmenurc, there might be a clue to the behavior.

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ed32

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Re: Menu

Hi rbh,

Thanks for helping out. My jgmenurc is as follows:

tint2_look          = 0
csv_cmd             = apps
position_mode       = pointer
menu_width          = 134
menu_padding_top    = 24
menu_padding_right  = 0
menu_padding_bottom = 0
menu_padding_left   = 0
menu_radius         = 1
sub_spacing         = 6
item_margin_x       = 1
item_margin_y       = 1
item_height         = 21
sep_height          = 4
sep_halign          = right
font                = Sans 10
icon_size           = 0
arrow_string        = ›
arrow_width         = 8
color_menu_bg       = #22373f 100
color_menu_border   = #C8CFCB 8
color_norm_bg       = #C8CFCB 00
color_norm_fg       = #d3dae3 100
color_sel_bg        = #bc4b4f 100
color_sel_fg        = #ffffff 100
color_sel_border    = #bc4b4f 100
color_title_fg      = #cc666a 100
color_title_bg      = #22373f 100
color_title_border  = #74998B 8
color_sep_fg        = #535353 100
sep_markup =
hover_delay         = 30
csv_name_format     = %n

rbh

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Re: Menu

Nothing in your jgmenurc sheds light over your menu behavior.

If no one else has any idea, test remove jgmenu with all configfiles:

$ apt-get purge jgmenu

and rename or delete ~/.config/jgmenu.

Reinstall jgmenu
Reboot

If that does not fix it, I am out of ideas.

Btw: i encourage you to read the forum rules. They state: "Use code tags when pasting code or configurations into your post.", as I did above.

Last edited by rbh (2020-12-06 12:40:34)

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malm

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Re: Menu

@ed32 could you describe in more detail what the problem is
1. what steps do you take
2. what happens
3. what did you expect to have happened?

hhh

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Re: Menu

Btw: i encourage you to read the forum rules. They state: "Use code tags when pasting code or configurations into your post.", as I did above.

Code tags... [ "code" ]some code[/ "code" ]

Don't include spaces or quotation marks. So without quotation marks, but with spaces which you will omit... [ code ]sudo apt update[/ code ]

Which will, if you omit the spaces, post as...

sudo apt update

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ed32

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Re: Menu

@rbh,

Will do the code formatting next time I post.

Thanks again.

@malm,
I am using the 32-bit version of Lithium on 2 different computers (1 physical (an old Pentium M), another in a VMware VM). They both exhibited the same behaviour where the main menu does not stay on screen long enough for a selection to be made. When I click on the main menu, it pops up but when I hover over a menu item, the menu will soon disappear if I did not click on a selection fast enough. Also the start typing to search function did not work.

Thanks.

Last edited by ed32 (2020-12-07 08:05:43)

malm

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Re: Menu

Could you start jgmenu from terminal and paste any messages.

killall jgmenu
jgmenu_run

ed32

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Re: Menu

Hi @malm,

This is what I got running the above:

warn: found old lockfile; lockfile removed
warning: XSupportsLocale(): error setting locale
warning: XSetLocaleModifiers(): error setting locale

Thanks again.

rbh

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Re: Menu

So, you can not start jgmenu fom terminal when killed and you have problem with your locales...
You migt consider reinstall maybe... Have you serached your logs for more errors?

BTW: What happend when you purged and reinstalled jgmenu?

Last edited by rbh (2020-12-08 10:41:17)

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Re: Menu

Code tags... [ "code" ]some code[/ "code" ]
Don't include spaces or quotation marks. So without quotation marks, but with spaces which you will omit... [ code ]sudo apt update[/ code ] ...

Which of course, to avoid inserting spaces in an example, could be displayed like:

[code]some code[/code]

Yes! You can wrap BBCode code in BBCode code tags! 

Just write:

[code][code]some code[/code][/code]

OK... I'll show myself out 

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ed32

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Re: Menu

@rbh,

Yes. It seems to be the locale problem, I set it to en_US.UTF-8. Everything works properly now.

Thanks!

hhh

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Re: Menu

Yes! You can wrap BBCode code in BBCode code tags! 

Just write:

[code][code]some code[/code][/code]

OK... I'll show myself out 

Nice tip, you can stay.

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damo

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Re: Menu

^ I discovered that effect a few years ago, but forgot how I'd done it!

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