Linux: native context menu runs action under mouse when opened

[thwaller]

Issue Type: Bug

When I right click, the menu will flash on and then off almost immediately, like maybe 100 or 200 milliseconds. This is not all the time, but I am not able to narrow it down. It seems to be only in the editor that this issue exists. I can sometimes "fix" it by right clicking on the left side, like in the Explorer, then going back to the editor. I do not have this issue with any other software on my system. This started maybe Wed this last week, so approx around Dec 16th.

I removed 2 SCSS extensions which I believed were at fault, but with them uninstalled, the problem still exists. Those were my most recently installed extensions, the rest have been there a while.

Regarding what happens, when the right click menu disappears it seems like an option is being selected, almost like there is some sort of double click happening... the first right click to open the menu and a second to select something. I believe this to be the case as different things happen after I right click that normally require me to explicitely call said function.

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.53.0-insider (c927a80, 2020-12-18T05:27:50.274Z)
OS version: Linux x64 5.4.0-59-generic

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[sbatten]

@thwaller what is almost certainly happening is that the menu is being drawn underneath the mouse cursor and that is activating the menu since the mouse up action triggers the item. we can't prevent that mouse up action from triggering as these are native menus, but we can try to fix the position (we already do try but there seems to be a consistent case you are hitting). if you could reproduce and take a short video, that would be helpful.

[thwaller]

Please see a right click attempt that worked, then one that did not, then one that did in the video.

Side note: I was disappointed to see that MKV files cannot be uploaded.

EDIT: Before anyone comments, I have no issue with showing the credentials, they are only temp during this process.

screen.mp4

[thwaller]

Interesting. For me, I have tried what you suggest and attached a video of a series of right clicks at different lengths of time pressing the button down. For me, it did not seem to make a difference, it just changed how fast the menu disappeared. Also note that in this video you can see the mouse cursor is not moving, it is just a series of right clicks.

screen.mp4

[sbatten]

@deepak1556 if you get a chance, maybe you could help me with this some time. It seems even with the same coordinates on our side, the menu is sometimes still drawn under the cursor on linux and I am not sure we can do any more about it.

[yume-chan]

@sbatten How about always using custom menus, but still allow title bar style to be switched between native and custom?

[bogdanbeniaminb]

Yes, using custom menus does help, but it creates other issues for my workflow. One is that I can no longer hide the title bar, as I currently do with the native one (I'm using Linux/KDE). The other is that the menus are much, much larger, to a point where using them means scrolling through the list of options and this makes the workflow more difficult.

I understand some have had this issue years ago as well (I found a github issue opened 4 years ago), but for me personally it only appeared in VSCode 1.53. I reverted back to 1.52 and it's working fine again. It seems to be something related either to the Electron version used in 1.53 or to VSCode itself.

For me personally, using the "custom menus" workaround doesn't seem a solution. I would rather prefer this issue is investigated and fixed, as you would normally do with bugs.

Thank you.

[thwaller]

I understand some have had this issue years ago as well (I found a github issue opened 4 years ago), but for me personally it only appeared in VSCode 1.53. I reverted back to 1.52 and it's working fine again. It seems to be something related either to the Electron version used in 1.53 or to VSCode itself.

I agree with this statement. This issue is "new" for me as well. There was a change somewhere that caused this issue, at least for some of us.

[IvanSafonov]

I have the same issue with VS Code 1.53. And it also works normal in 1.52.

Version: 1.53.0
Commit: 8490d3dde47c57ba65ec40dd192d014fd2113496
Date: 2021-02-03T15:56:04.185Z
Electron: 11.2.1
Chrome: 87.0.4280.141
Node.js: 12.18.3
V8: 8.7.220.31-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 5.4.0-65-generic