Re: how to keep XWin menu open when clicking on an item

["vdu" <vincentdutat at freegates dot be>]

I just wanted to know if a "<shift>+click" beahiour is possible in Xwin
menu, if not, that's ok for me.

anyway, thanks to everyone.

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"Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote in message
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> Jack Tanner wrote:
> > vdu wrote:
> >
> >> yes, I do ! try this : <shift>+click on an item in "all programs"
> >> menu. Do
> >> you see ? the menu stays open.
> >
> >
> > I've been using Windows since version 3.0 and had no idea that
> > existed... Actually, it doesn't work in NT 4, at least. Anyone care to
> > try in 2000?
> >
> > Do you propose that this work on all Windows versions, or only on the
> > ones that have this shift+click behavior in the Start menu?
> >
> > Anyhow, if this sounds like an even remotely plausible piece of
> > functionality for the tray menu, it makes an ever stronger case for
> > moving the program list from the tray menu to the Start menu.
>
> Right now we have a menu in both places, if you install the
> X-start-menu-icons package.  Why would we want to remove the
> functionality that allows a program list in the tray icon menu when the
> default behavior for that list is to be empty and to not be shown?  Only
> people that want to use it are using it.
>
> Harold
>