Alt Key Doesn't Open Menu

sdetweil

@Fifteen15Studios what menu were you talking about?

mm is a browser app, so that is it’s frame’s menu,
I have never seen anything else

Fifteen15Studios

@sdetweil It used to pop down the browser’s menu. With a File, Tools, etc. I could get it to show developer mode from that menu, and more.

sdetweil

@Fifteen15Studios I guess electron must have changed its behavior.

sdetweil

@Fifteen15Studios I see how to do the disable in code, but we don’t do that.

window.removeMenu()

I do not see any mention of changing the default behavior or how to enable it

Fifteen15Studios

@sdetweil It only seemed to happen with a fresh install. I had an older version installed that I just continuously updated for months and never had this issue. But with a fresh install, behavior is different. Maybe there’s something that changed in the install script that causes it?

karsten13

@sdetweil said in Alt Key Doesn't Open Menu:

I see how to do the disable in code, but we don’t do that.

we are using frame: false in electronOptions

sdetweil

@Fifteen15Studios well, we upgraded the to a newer version of electron. everyone keeps changing things…

lnicaodh

Hi,

I’ve got the same issue (no menu when hitting alt).

Inspired by @karsten13 's post I tested out changing
“electronOptionsDefaults.frame = false;” to true in electron.js and this gave me the window toolbar just fine, but it was always on. Trying a few other things still hasnt given me the ‘sometimes on’ functionality.

I also don’t know if there is another electronOptions I should be changing instead of the defaults inside of electron.js

Short of writing a new function to set frame to true on a button press (which I’m not even sure would work, because the settings are passed in at window creation), I’m not sure where to go next.

So I know roughly what to investigate, but I’m still a bit lost. If anyone else has solved this issue or has any suggestions I’d be very grateful!

sdetweil

@lnicaodh you can look thru the electron config option on the electron site. lots of them

lnicaodh

As a partial fix for this:

Add the following to your config.js

electronOptions:
    {
		frame: true,
		autoHideMenuBar: true
    }

However, this has the issue of still showing the outer frame of the window, which obviously isn’t ideal.

I need to move on from troubleshooting this particular issue so this will have to do for now. Hopefully someone in future can solve it for real.