[solved] right-click menus instantly close

When I right-click in a GTK application, the context menu that appears is instantly closed upon release of the mouse button. This is extremely annoying as it always automatically selects the first option from the context menu, e.g. creating a new folder in Thunar.
I remember having read about this issue somewhere here in the Arch forums, but couldn't find the topic again since yesterday. I think it had something to do with the selected GTK or icon theme.
I'm using awesome as window manager and my GTK2-config looks like this:
gtk-theme-name="Aldabra"
gtk-icon-theme-name="gnome-brave"
gtk-font-name="Sans 10"
gtk-cursor-theme-name="Bluecurve"
gtk-cursor-theme-size=0
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS
gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_SMALL_TOOLBAR
gtk-button-images=1
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-enable-event-sounds=0
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=0
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle="hintfull"
gtk-xft-rgba="rgb"
gtk-recent-files-max-age=0
Thanks for any advice!
Last edited by lynix (2012-05-21 16:47:09)

lynix wrote:Yes I'm using cairo-xcompmgr for compositing.
No OpenBox as i wrote, it's the awesome window manager.
You posted before I could edit my stupidity I have seen this sort of behavior with xcompmgr. You might try turning it off (temporarily) and see if you can replicate the issue.

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