GTK4 Application menubar items not responsive on startup (MacOS)

[Paul_Emsley]

Hi,

When I use gtk_application_set_menubar() the menus appear in the MacOS menubar - as expected. However, on startup, they are not “active” - i.e. they do not respond to clicks by opening up the menu with menu items as I would expect (and as it does when I run the same program on my Ubuntu system). For me, gtk-demo-application also has an unresponsive menu in the menubar - and that seems to me not to be the intended behavior.

However, if I click off the application so that the Finder takes over the MacOS menubar, then click on the application again, so that it has focus, then the menu becomes active and I can open the menu items.

The installation of GTK4 that I am using on MacOS is provided by Homebrew.

Thanks.

[lb90]

As that happens even in the demos, most likely it’s a GTK issue. Can you open a ticket in Issues · GNOME / gtk · GitLab ?

[Paul_Emsley]

OK, Done. [Some more characters to pass the character number limit]

[chergert (Christian Hergert)]

I never implemented menubar support in the GDK 4 backend for macOS. Typically, that was done with external tooling in the past, but if someone comes around to write support for it, I’ll certainly review it.