Re: x-popup-menu pops up at funny positions

[Jan D.]

>     Because it did not in fact read the current position.  It read
>     the position of the inner window in coordinates that are valid
>     for the parent window.  Now, if the parent window is the root
>     window, then it reads the current position.  But in all other
>     cases it does not.
>
> Instead of just deleting that code, can you replace it with code
> that does the right job?

I did that.  The additions to x/y before assigning them to dummy.root_x/y.

>     One could replace parent_desc with the root window, but it
>     seemd pointless to do a query to the X server when Emacs
>     has all the information already and a simple addition finds
>     the current position.
>
> I am not sure it is always up to date.  Could you check?

I will check some more on different window managers, but so far
it has been up to date.  I studied the code and I believe it keeps
things up to date.


>     Replacing mouse_position_hook with a simple XQueryPointer
>     cures this.
>
> Could you send the diff to do that?
> (Or just install it?)

I'll install it when I done the checking (and it still is OK :-)

        Jan D.