The circle is drawn below the drop-down menus (Cinnamon desktop environment)

[L30n4rd0-4rg3nt1n0]

I would like to thank you for your 'highlight-pointer' program, I think it will be useful to me.

I have only encountered one small inconvenience. The circle is drawn below the dropdown menus (I'm using the cinnamon desktop environment on Debian Sid).

I do not have enough knowledge to evaluate the source code file, 'highlight-pointer.c', but I suspect the key is in the "redraw" function...

I wonder if a "simple" modification to that file would be possible (to plot the circle on top of anything else, except the mouse pointer). Would you know what I should modify to achieve that goal?

Thank you
Leonardo

[swillner]

Hey Leonardo, Sorry for the late reply. Do you encounter the issue on all dropdown menus (regardless of application)? Does the issue also affect "regular" menus?

[L30n4rd0-4rg3nt1n0]

Hi, I don't know what is a "regular" menu.

I use cinnamon (in Debian sid) and I am referring to every drop-down menu that exists in any application. My workaround has been to add "XRaiseWindow(dpy, win);" at various points in the program. That solves 95% of the cases.

[swillner]

Ah, good hint. I meant menus that open from the menu bar or via right-click. With dropdown you mean those from GUI elements where you can choose from a list, right? - do you know if that's for GTK as well as for QT applications?
I'm asking for the details as there seem to be some work arounds (e.g. raising the window every time it is covered), but those could lead into "fights" with other windows trying to stay on top...

[L30n4rd0-4rg3nt1n0]

"from the menu bar or via right-click" <--- those are what I mean

It happens to me with the gimp menus (gtk)
It happens to me with the konsole menus (qt I guess)
It happens to me with the menus of any application