GNU bug report logs - #4540
[macOS 10.6][VNC (Applet Remote)] Menu sub-items are not visible

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
To: Bug-Gnu-Emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Where are the menu sub-items 
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:29:04 -0400

package:ns,emacs

This is an Emacs problem;
I can reproduce only over VNC (Apple Remote); running Emacs on the  
remote side.

Menus don't show up, except the applications menu.

OP reports that problem has also occurred on 10.6, and, for him,  
without VNC.



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jean-Philippe SCHILLE <jp.schille <at> sentesoftware.co.uk>
> Date: September 1, 2009 10:13:00 AM EDT
> To: aquamacs-devel <at> aquamacs.org
> Subject: [Aquamacs-devel] Where are the menu sub-items in Aquamacs  
> version 2.
> Reply-To: Aquamacs Developers <aquamacs-devel <at> aquamacs.org>
>
> Hello,
>
> For the 2.0 branch versions, I cannot see any sub-items in the menu  
> bar.
> The Aquamacs item is fine as all expected sub-items (About,  
> Check,Services...) are visible but the menu items File Edit Options  
> Tools Window Help do not show any sub-item when I click on them.
>
> Everything is fine with Aquamacs Emacs 1.8 though.
>
> I am running OS X 10.5.8 and I am using the latest X11 version 2.4.0  
> from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/Releases (I wonder if  
> this is the culprit?)
>
> Thanks in advance for your help and advice.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jean-Philippe Schillé
>

Message #10 received at 4540 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
To: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 4540 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Where are the menu sub-items?
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:53:58 -0400

On Sep 22, 2009, at 6:35 PM, Adrian Robert wrote:

>
> On Sep 22, 2009, at 5:24 PM, David Reitter wrote:
>
>> And one more bit of information:  the missing menu issue only  
>> occurs when I run Emacs in VNC (Apple's VNC).  When I run it  
>> locally, 10.5.8 poses no problems.
>
> You could try commenting out the "|| handling_signal != 0" line 583  
> in nsmenu.c.  That's the simplest thing I can think of that could  
> lead to all menus having empty contents.  If that is the problem,  
> the solution is to merge in the menu event handling code from  
> Yamamoto Mitsuharu's "Carbon-AppKit" emacs.  I've not tackled this  
> due to it being a big, messy merge, and uncertainty about the  
> frequency of problems without it.

Just ran this in the debugger real quick.

handling_signal is 0 as it should be.

I looked at a call to ns_update_menubar with deep_p ==0; it seems that  
it's thinking that there was no change so it won't update the menu.
It does it once, in the beginning, though, where it seems to correctly  
add the menus (but not the submenus).

Where does it actually do the submenus when the time comes?

- D

Message #17 received at 4540 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 4540 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4540: Where are the menu sub-items
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 02:58:29 +0200

David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com> writes:

> package:ns,emacs
>
> This is an Emacs problem;
> I can reproduce only over VNC (Apple Remote); running Emacs on the remote side.
>
> Menus don't show up, except the applications menu.
>
> OP reports that problem has also occurred on 10.6, and, for him, without VNC.
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Jean-Philippe SCHILLE <jp.schille <at> sentesoftware.co.uk>
>> Date: September 1, 2009 10:13:00 AM EDT
>> To: aquamacs-devel <at> aquamacs.org
>> Subject: [Aquamacs-devel] Where are the menu sub-items in Aquamacs  version 2.
>> Reply-To: Aquamacs Developers <aquamacs-devel <at> aquamacs.org>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> For the 2.0 branch versions, I cannot see any sub-items in the menu  bar.
>> The Aquamacs item is fine as all expected sub-items (About,
>> Check,Services...) are visible but the menu items File Edit Options
>> Tools Window Help do not show any sub-item when I click on them.
>>
>> Everything is fine with Aquamacs Emacs 1.8 though.
>>
>> I am running OS X 10.5.8 and I am using the latest X11 version 2.4.0  from
>> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/Releases (I wonder if  this is the
>> culprit?)

This is now almost to the day 10 years old.  I'm therefore asking if you
can reproduce this on a modern version of Emacs?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

Message #24 received at 4540-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 4540-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4540: Where are the menu sub-items
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 01:23:19 +0100

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> package:ns,emacs
>>
>> This is an Emacs problem;
>> I can reproduce only over VNC (Apple Remote); running Emacs on the remote side.
>>
>> Menus don't show up, except the applications menu.
>>
>> OP reports that problem has also occurred on 10.6, and, for him, without VNC.
>>
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: Jean-Philippe SCHILLE <jp.schille <at> sentesoftware.co.uk>
>>> Date: September 1, 2009 10:13:00 AM EDT
>>> To: aquamacs-devel <at> aquamacs.org
>>> Subject: [Aquamacs-devel] Where are the menu sub-items in Aquamacs  version 2.
>>> Reply-To: Aquamacs Developers <aquamacs-devel <at> aquamacs.org>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> For the 2.0 branch versions, I cannot see any sub-items in the menu  bar.
>>> The Aquamacs item is fine as all expected sub-items (About,
>>> Check,Services...) are visible but the menu items File Edit Options
>>> Tools Window Help do not show any sub-item when I click on them.
>>>
>>> Everything is fine with Aquamacs Emacs 1.8 though.
>>>
>>> I am running OS X 10.5.8 and I am using the latest X11 version 2.4.0  from
>>> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/Releases (I wonder if  this is the
>>> culprit?)
>
> This is now almost to the day 10 years old.  I'm therefore asking if you
> can reproduce this on a modern version of Emacs?

More information was requested, but none was given within 6 weeks, so
I'm going to assume that this has been fixed in the last 10 years.
I'm consequently closing this bug.

If this is still an issue, please reopen the bug report.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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