GNU bug report logs - #72791
29.4; x-popup-menu in emacs built with lucid xtoolkit can't scroll

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>

Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 13:37:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.4

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 72791 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 72791 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#72791: 29.4; x-popup-menu in emacs built with lucid
 xtoolkit can't scroll
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:48:32 +0300

> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
> Cc: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>,  72791 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 06:31:49 +0000
> 
> > Which menu was too long?  Is it a menu generated by a core Emacs
> > feature or by 3rd-party package?
> 
> A menu in Helm, screenshots attached, the first is with Lucid and the
> other with Gtk.

Given this limitation of Lucid, my suggestion would be to organize the
menu into a multilevel menu by grouping related items, to make the
top-level menu shorter.
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