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Close whisker menu when drop-down terminal is triggered
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RESOLVED: MOVED
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Xfce4-terminal
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Description Frash 2020-04-25 13:49:20 CEST
Hi

When a drop-down terminal is dropped down and I open whisker menu the drop-down terminal gets dropped up.
On the other hand when the whisker menu is open and I trigger the drop-down terminal to go down the whisker menu stays down and keeps the focus.
I think it would be more intuitive if whisker menu gets closed when the terminal appears.
This bug gets me if I search for an application (like mousepad) and while i'm searching I realize that a terminal application (like vim) would be better for the task.
When this happens I automatically trigger the drop-down terminal because I need a shell. 
Then the bug is appearing and I have to close whisker menu and use the mouse to get focus on the drop-down terminal.

There is also another bug where the drop-down terminal is only flickering down for a short time when you do the following combination with keyboard shortcuts:
1) Drop down the terminal (xfce4-terminal --drop-down)
2) Drop up the terminal (xfce4-terminal --drop-down)
3) Open whisker menu (xfce4-popup-whiskermenu)
4) Drop down the terminal (xfce4-terminal --drop-down)
Maybe this has to do with the focus grabbing of whisker menu?


It would be great if whisker menu gets closed when the drop-down terminal appears.
Maybe a workaround would be an option like "xfce4-popup-whiskermenu --up" in whisker menu?
Then it would be possible to drop down the terminal with a keyboard shortcut that triggers "xfce4-popup-whiskermenu --up && xfce4-terminal --drop-down"
But I don't know if this is a good solution for the problem...

Thank you for your great work :)
cheers
Frash
Comment 1 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-24 23:47:35 CEST
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Bug #16755

Reported by:
Frash
Reported on: 2020-04-25
Last modified on: 2020-05-24

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