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I have a particular terminal program which has a button 2
menu, but when button 3 is pressed in this client, I would
like to pass this event on to the window manager, so that
it can post its own button 3 menu.

The current implementation of the terminal has the following
code (not directly, through a library) which it calls when
it receives a button 3 event:

XUngrabPointer(_x.display, m->msec);
XSendEvent(_x.display, e.root, True, ButtonPressMask, (XEvent*)&e);

Neglecting the data structures, the intent is to send the
event back to the root window.

After button 3 is pressed once in the client, the window manager
button 3 menu is posted; after dismissing the menu, the next
pointer movement immediately posts this menu again. That is,
the loop in the client that waits on mouse events, is getting
a ButtonPress event. While the window manager menu is posted,
if the pointer is moved outside the client and the menu is
unposted, the next pointer motion into the client window causes
the window manager menu to be posted again, and so on.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Noel Hunt



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