Chromium, Chrome and Opera can't open links in dropdown menu

[anticapitalista]

Bumping this since no-one really listened to the op.

On antiX-21 (bullseye) there IS an issue as described with chromium/google-chrome in IceWM and fluxbox (but not jwm).
Can others see if the same happens on MX-21 fluxbox ONLY.
Thanks

[fehlix]

Bumping this since no-one really listened to the op.

On antiX-21 (bullseye) there IS an issue as described with chromium/google-chrome in IceWM and fluxbox (but not jwm).
Can others see if the same happens on MX-21 fluxbox ONLY.
Thanks

Any example side which is not working. At the mentioned side in post #1 I don't see "Drop Down" menus in any browser. Just normal menus and normal content.

[anticapitalista]

OK - here's an example.

Go to antiX forum -> Drop down menu Forum - Latest topics.

Does it open?

[fehlix]

OK - here's an example.

Go to antiX forum -> Drop down menu Forum - Latest topics.

Does it open?

MX21 RC 1 Fluxbox - update to latest

MXPI->PopApps-> Browser Chromiuem installed

DropDown menus on https://mxlinux.org
* all drop-down menus do work

DropDown menu on https://www.antixforum.com/

On main forum page: freshly loaded forum drop-down menu all entries get highlighted when hover over with mouse

* left click seems not always to work; appears to work only when other tab is busy loading

* middle-click always works and opens in new tab

* workaround mentioned in antiX-forum to add chromium with parameter --disable-features=SendMouseLeaveEvents
seems to make it work for https://www.antixforum.com:

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chromium --disable-features=SendMouseLeaveEvents 

[anticapitalista]

Thanks @fehlix.

So is it a bug with fluxbox, chrome/chromium or the antiX web site?

[olsztyn]

I apologize for reviving this rather old thread...
I have just started playing with MX 21 - Fluxbox.
The same issue with drop-down menus in MX 21 - Fluxbox, as I previously (almost two years ago) reported in antiX IceWM and antiX Fluxbox. This issue was reproduced by some other antiX users... In antiX this issue appeared to be fixed after some time but kept recurring later. This was the primary reason I eventually dropped IceWM and Fluxbox and moved to JWM going forward. Never such problem again...

Aside from this issue, MX 21 - Fluxbox is very nicely implemented. The best one, IMHO. Thank you.

[hockeypbp]

I have the same behavior using Chrome on MX21.1 Fluxbox.

I have not enabled any outside repo to the best of my knowledge. Please let me know if I can provide any further information to help. This is by far my favorite Linux distro ever and love the customization possibilities of Fluxbox. Thank you Jerry for the videos. It appears we are Finger Lakes neighbors.

[fehlix]

I have the same behavior using Chrome on MX21.1 Fluxbox.

I have not enabled any outside repo to the best of my knowledge. Please let me know if I can provide any further information to help. This is by far my favorite Linux distro ever and love the customization possibilities of Fluxbox. Thank you Jerry for the videos. It appears we are Finger Lakes neighbors.

That's an old thread, not sure why the issue is still not fixed.
The workaround was mentioned some posts above
to add "--disable-features=SendMouseLeaveEvents "
to the chrome / chromium launcher,
e.g for chromium:
You change the command from

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chromium %U

to

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chromium --disable-features=SendMouseLeaveEvents %U

You would right-click on the Chromium entry within Application-menu ( menu icon on the left-bottom)
and edit the entry and change the command.
That should fix the issue.

[Jerry3904]

I've never seen this--is it an antiX problem or a MXFB one that we should fix?

[fehlix]

I've never seen this--is it an antiX problem or a MXFB one that we should fix?

See post #14, the issue is still present in latest MX Fluxbox on Drop Down menus.
Just tested with both chrome and chromium, after manually installed using MX Package Installer->Populare Apps->Browser.
+++EDIT+++
To note chrome and chromium are not installed by default with MX Fluxbox.