How to make 'Configure menu' stay for longer [SOLVED]

[ron_h]

LMDE 201403 Cinnamon 64 bit

To configure the menu, I right mouse button on the menu icon. That pops up a box with 'configure menu' but it only stays for a very short time before the menu itself is displayed. I usually don't manage to get the mouse there in time to select it so I have to RMB again. And again. Is there any way to make the popup box stay around for a bit longer ? Or what am I doing wrong to make the menu replace the popup box so quickly?

Ron

[Kalyk]

I tried it right now on the same version.
No disappearing of the menu for me, it just stays.
Can it be a graphics card problem or something you changed yourself?

[ron_h]

If I leave the cursor on the menu icon, the options of "configure' and 'delete this applet' stay there just fine. As soon as I move the cursor to select 'configure', all too often, the complete menu gets displayed and therefore the 'configure' option I want is no longer displayed.

What I have now tried is changing the 'hover delay' on the Applets/Menu screen to 250 milliseconds (default was zero) and that appears to be a bit better. Not sure I can say SOLVED yet, though.

Ron

[Kalyk]

In the config menu I see the option:
"open the menu when I move my mouse over it"
Is that selected in your config?

[ron_h]

Yes, I have checked that option. It seems that it can sort of override RMB so as to make selecting 'configure' more difficult.

Ron

[Kalyk]

It doesn't override the right mouse button, but does have that effect.
Because when you're on the menu sign you want to do a right mouse click while this config-option makes the system do an automatic left mouse or similar.
So just disable that option and the problem should be gone.

[ron_h]

OK, thanks. So the RMB configure option is more-or-less incompatible with the open the menu when I mouse over it option. Pity. I'll stop using the mouse over option.

Ron