Version: unknown (using KDE 3.3.2, Gentoo) Compiler: gcc version 3.4.3 20041125 (Gentoo Hardened Linux 3.4.3-r1, ssp-3.4.3-0, pie-8.7.7) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.9 When clicking and releasing an item in the menubar of one window, and then clicking an item in a menubar of another window, this will not transfer focus to that second window. Open two KDE programs (any two will do), maximize them vertically, give the righthand one focus and foreground, leaving just a few centimetres visible of the lefthand window. Now click and release an item in the righthand menubar, move the mouse to the left (several menus will appear and disappear), then click and release an item in the lefthand menubar. Notice that the lefthand window did not get focus. This is wrong. Now move the mouse to the right again. Several menus will appear and disappear while the mouse is over the righthand menubar, but these menus do not belong to this menubar but to the invisible part of the lefthand one. This is confusing. (When the top of the lefthand window is lowered and the above procedure is followed, the menus will unfold and fold apparently from nowhere, as long as the mouse is over the invisible part of the lefthand menubar.) When Firefox is in the lefthand window, clicking something in its menubar will always transfer focus to it, and foreground it. When it is Abiword on the left, clicking its menubar will transfer focus to it, but it will not be foregrounded. For both of them, now clicking twice an item in the menubar of the righthand KDE program will foreground the window, but not give it focus. Madness.
Confirmed, on HEAD 20041209. Seli: is this something to be done in kwin? Or is it kdelibs?
Confirming the above behaviour is still the same in kde 4.4 rc1 Not sure if it is bug or deliberate design choice.
a menu grabs the mouse. Nothing we can do about it till Wayland
*** Bug 125676 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***