Unselecting the "hover" option doesn't do anything

[Thomas-N]

Deselecting the "hover" options under "prefererences" -> "applications" doesn't stop "hover" behaviour in the menu. I think I remember this working properly a long time ago, but it doesn't work now.

Using the advanced Mate menu from the repositories, both in Ubuntu Mate 18.04 and in Arch Linux.

[ghost]

Yeah, same issue on 18.04. Fortunately, I'm a programmer, so let's investigate...

[ghost]

https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-menu/blob/18.04.3/lib/mate-menu-config.py#L218
https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-menu/blob/18.04.3/mate_menu/plugins/applications.py#L434

[ghost]

/usr/lib/mate-menu

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/usr/share/mate-menu/plugins

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https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-menu/blob/18.04.3/mate_menu/plugins/applications.py#L434

StartFilter

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/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mate_menu/plugins

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/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mate_menu/plugins

Yea, this one...

[ghost]

Ok...

[ghost]

So, open a terminal and run:

sudo cp /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mate_menu/plugins/applications.py /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mate_menu/plugins/applications.py.old
sudo pluma /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mate_menu/plugins/applications.py

In the opened file, replace these lines:
https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-menu/blob/18.04.3/mate_menu/plugins/applications.py#L1443-L1452
With this:

                        #if self.categories_mouse_over:
                        #    startId = item["button"].connect( "enter", self.StartFilter, item["filter"] )
                        #    stopId = item["button"].connect( "leave", self.StopFilter )
                        #    item["button"].mouseOverHandlerIds = ( startId, stopId )
                        #else:
                        item["button"].mouseOverHandlerIds = None

                        item["button"].connect( "clicked", self.FilterAndClear, item["filter"] )
                        #item["button"].connect( "focus-in-event", self.categoryBtnFocus, item["filter"] )
                        item["button"].show()

Log out of the system, log back in and it should work.

You may also need to remove old /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mate_menu/plugins/applications.pyc cache file, but not sure.

[vkareh]

@procedural thanks for debugging this, I've submitted a pull request that fixes the behaviour of the Hover option: #84

[ghost]

@vkareh thanks!

[HubKing]

Is this feature coming? I have been using this menu for years, and when I type some letters and try to click one of the search result with the mouse, the items displayed usually are gone because the mouse cursor often passed above a category unintentionally. I saw "hover" in the options, but unchecking it had no effect, so I came hear for asking a feature to disable hovering over categories.