behaviour of the menu bar question

[Toche, Patrick]

Hi, I'm a first-time user of gv,

left-hand side menu, i.e. "Variable Size", "Open", "Print All", etc. --> No problem.

top menu bar, i.e. "File", "State", "Page", "Portrait", etc. --> Can't access it.

for instance, to toggle Portrait and Landscape, well clicking has no effect, the best I can do is to see the options displayed, but I can't scroll up and down. This is clicking or tapping with the touchpad.

Using CTRL+7 or CTRL+8 did toggle portrait/landscape mode.

Any ideas?

thanks.

Lenovo U300S, Kubuntu 11.10., Synaptics touchpad patched.
GV 1:3.7.2-1

[Toche, Patrick]

> You have to click and hold the button down and then let up on the
> option you want.  Not particularly touch-pad friendly.


Thanks Orion for your reply, it's not working here, either a bug or an incompatibility of sort with my touchpad settings,  would you clarify this for me please:

does your explanation apply to both the buttons on the left-hand side and to those in the top bar?

I have no problem with the left-hand side part of the menu, the problem I have is only with the top bar.

for instance, the "Open" button works fine. but the "Portrait/Landscape" button won't toggle, no matter how I try, holding it not holding it, etc..

thanks,

Patrick.

On 01/11/2012 02:33 AM, Toche, Patrick wrote:

>> You have to click and hold the button down and then let up on the
>> option you want.  Not particularly touch-pad friendly.
>
>
> Thanks Orion for your reply, it's not working here, either a bug or an incompatibility of sort with my touchpad settings,  would you clarify this for me please:
>
> does your explanation apply to both the buttons on the left-hand side and to those in the top bar?
>
> I have no problem with the left-hand side part of the menu, the problem I have is only with the top bar.
>
> for instance, the "Open" button works fine. but the "Portrait/Landscape" button won't toggle, no matter how I try, holding it not holding it, etc..
>
> thanks,
>
> Patrick.

For the top row of buttons, you have to hold down the left button, move the
cursor to the select the option you want and then let up.  You should at least
see the menu flash up when you click on them.

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[Toche, Patrick]

Thanks a lot Orion, I have managed to get  it to work, at last.

It turns out that, on my laptop (Lenovo U300S, Kubuntu 11.10, default mouse/touchpad settings with synaptiks), I couldn't get the mouse to do anything useful, but I did manage to get the touchpad to work. See below for a description under "SOLUTION".

PROBLEM:
With a right-click of the mouse, the top-bar menu is pulled down, but no action will make the cursor move in any direction, no amount of touchpad scratching, no arrows, no tabbing, all it does is show the menu but does not allow me to navigate through it. Double-clicking does not select the first entry of the menu either, it just opens and closes the menu very quickly. So the mouse actions available on my laptop are useless. I fiddled with the options in the "mouse" settings, to no avail (while my investigations were thorough they may not have been exhaustive).


SOLUTION:
With a double-tap of the touchpad followed by a downward brushing of the pad, I can scroll down the menu and select any item.

I discovered this after some fiddling prompted by your remarks. My initial attempts did not uncover the trick because neither a single tap nor a double tap do anything but very briefly show the menu. To actually be able to navigate the menu, you need to DOUBLE-TAP PLUS, immediately after the double tap, BRUSH the pad, with a single finger, only then does the menu remain visible.

what an exciting life I lead.

thanks a lot for your help Orion, I can now benefit from this great soft!

Patrick