Fedora 20 menu behavior

[bds]

Hi all,

One of my coworkers is experiencing odd UI behavior with oXygen 15.1 and Fedora 20. All of the menus expect a 'hold and select' behavior - I'm afraid I don't know the correct term for it - basically, to open the File menu a left click and hold is required. Selecting an item from the menu is, as a result, very difficult.

Is there a way to modify UI behavior in oXygen?

I've attached his System Properties below [1].
Thank you for your help.

[1] System Properties:

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apple.awt.showGrowBox   true

apple.awt.window.position.forceSafeCreation     true

apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar      true

awt.dnd.drag.threshold  5

awt.toolkit     sun.awt.X11.XToolkit

com.apple.macos.smallTabs       true

com.apple.macos.useScreenMenuBar        true

com.apple.mrj.application.apple.menu.about.name Oxygen

com.oxygenxml.editor.home.url   file:/home/paulc/Oxygen%20XML%20Editor%2015/

com.oxygenxml.editor.lib.dir    /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 15/lib

com.oxygenxml.editor.plugins.dir        /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 15/plugins

com.oxygenxml.is.eclipse.plugin false

com.oxygenxml.language  English

com.oxygenxml.tree.readonly     false

exe4j.moduleName        /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 15/oxygen15.2

file.encoding   UTF-8

file.encoding.pkg       sun.io

file.separator  /

i4j.vmov        true

i4j.vpt true

install4j.appDir        /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 15/

install4j.exeDir        /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 15/

install4j.jvmDir        /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 15/jre

install4j.launcherId    19

install4j.swt   false

java.awt.graphicsenv    sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment

java.awt.printerjob     sun.print.PSPrinterJob

java.class.path /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 

15/.install4j/i4jruntime.jar:/home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 15/lib/oxygen.jar

java.class.version      51.0

java.endorsed.dirs      /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 15/jre/lib/endorsed

java.ext.dirs   /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 

15/jre/lib/ext:/usr/java/packages/lib/ext

java.home       /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 15/jre

java.io.tmpdir  /tmp

java.library.path 

/usr/java/packages/lib/amd64:/usr/lib64:/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib

java.runtime.name       Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment

java.runtime.version    1.7.0_40-b43

java.specification.name Java Platform API Specification

java.specification.vendor       Oracle Corporation

java.specification.version      1.7

java.vendor     Oracle Corporation

java.vendor.url http://java.oracle.com/

java.vendor.url.bug     http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/

java.version    1.7.0_40

java.vm.info    mixed mode

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java.vm.specification.name      Java Virtual Machine Specification

java.vm.specification.vendor    Oracle Corporation

java.vm.specification.version   1.7

java.vm.vendor  Oracle Corporation

java.vm.version 24.0-b56

javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory 

org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl

javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory 

org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl

jide.tabs.dnd.drag.threshold    40

jna.platform.library.path       /usr/lib64:/lib64:/usr/lib:/lib

line.separator  \n

org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EPackage.Registry.INSTANCE 

org.eclipse.emf.ecore.impl.EPackageRegistryImpl

org.xml.sax.driver      org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser

os.arch amd64

os.name Linux

os.version      3.13.5-202.fc20.x86_64

path.separator  :

require.signed.ucf.jars false

sun.arch.data.model     64

sun.awt.enableExtraMouseButtons true

sun.awt.keepWorkingSetOnMinimize        true

sun.boot.class.path     /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 

15/jre/lib/resources.jar:/home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 

15/jre/lib/rt.jar:/home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 

15/jre/lib/sunrsasign.jar:/home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 

15/jre/lib/jsse.jar:/home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 

15/jre/lib/jce.jar:/home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 

15/jre/lib/charsets.jar:/home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 

15/jre/lib/jfr.jar:/home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 15/jre/classes

sun.boot.library.path   /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 15/jre/lib/amd64

sun.cpu.endian  little

sun.cpu.isalist 

sun.desktop     gnome

sun.font.fontmanager    sun.awt.X11FontManager

sun.io.unicode.encoding UnicodeLittle

sun.java.command        com.install4j.runtime.launcher.Launcher launch 

ro.sync.exml.Oxygen true false /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 

15/error.log /home/paulc/Oxygen XML Editor 15/output.log true true false 

  true true 0 0  20 20 Arial 0,0,0 8 500 version 15.2 20 40 Arial 0,0,0 

8 500 -1

sun.java.launcher       SUN_STANDARD

sun.java2d.noddraw      true

sun.jnu.encoding        UTF-8

sun.management.compiler HotSpot 64-Bit Tiered Compilers

sun.os.patch.level      unknown

sun.swing.enableImprovedDragGesture     true

user.country    US

user.dir        /home/paulc

user.home       /home/paulc

user.language   en

user.name       paulc

user.timezone   America/New_York

[adrian]

Hi,

We usually test all builds of Oxygen with the latest distribution of Ubuntu available at the time (Ubuntu 13.10 right now).
We have not yet encountered such problems during our testing with Ubuntu. It's most likely a compatibility problem specific to Fedora between the Java runtime distributed with Oxygen (Java SE 7u40) and the window manager from Fedora 20. From what I've seen in the system properties, it's Gnome.

We have not yet tested Oxygen with Fedora 20. I've submitted a task to do so.
Please note that v15.2 is the latest version of Oxygen available right now, so we recommend using it, if possible.

Meanwhile, until we get the chance to test Oxygen in Fedora 20, you could try to run Oxygen with the OpenJDK 7 Java runtime available from the Fedora repository. Instructions on how to install OpenJDK are available here:
http://openjdk.java.net/install/

Oxygen deploys its own bundled JRE, so you will have to bypass it. To do this, quit the application, navigate to the Oxygen installation folder and rename the 'jre' folder. e.g. 'jreold'. When you start Oxygen, it will automatically pick up and use your system installed Java VM.

You can check what Java Virtual Machine is Oxygen running on in Help > About, "System properties". Look for the properties:
java.runtime.name
java.runtime.version

If Oxygen doesn't pick up OpenJDK automatically after it has been set as the default Java runtime, you can create a symbolic link as described below.

If you don't want to make OpenJDK the default Java runtime or Oxygen doesn't detect it, you can create a symbolic link named 'jre' in the Oxygen installation folder that points to the OpenJDK folder. To find out where OpenJDK is installed use:
alternatives --list
Then you can create the symbolic link pointing to the appropriate location:
e.g.
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 Oxygen/jre

Regards,
Adrian

[adrian]

Hi again,

We tested Oxygen v15.2 with the bundled Java SE 7u40 on Fedora 20 and the menu problem you are describing seems to happen only with the Oxygen window maximized. We'll look into possible bugfixes for this.
A quick workaround for this problem is to align the Oxygen window to the top left corner prior to maximizing it.

We've also tested Oxygen v15.2 with the OpenJDK 7 Java runtime available from the Fedora repository (7u45 and 7u51) and the problem with the menus does not occur. So there's also this possibility. If you want to go this route, you can use the instructions from my previous reply.

Regards,
Adrian

[bds]

Hi Adrian -

thank you for your extremely helpful posts. My co-worked opted to use Alt+ keyboard approach for navigating the menus, but I will direct him here.

Best,
Bridger