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I have an older system at home running KDE 3.1. I've noticed one significant change in behavior between it and newer versions of KDE that is pretty annoying, and was wondering if anyone else has found this, and if there's some setting that changes this behavior. If involves the behavior when navigating application menus using the keyboard. For example, entering Alt-B in a browser to navigate bookmarks.

In newer versions of KDE, if the requested menu happens to brop down underneath the current position of the mouse poineter, it highlights the menu entry that happens to be under the mouse. In the older versions, it correctly honored the fact that I was using the keyboard and not the mouse, and ignored the mouse position unless I actually moved the mouse.

Man, does this one drive me up the wall. I'm constantly pushing my mouse off to the right of the desktop to keep it from screwing around with keyboard navigation. Otherwise, when I enter Alt-B in Opera for example, I often end up way down at the bottom of my bookmarks because the mouse happened to be there, instead of up at the top where I want to be.

I can't think of any reason why anyone would want such behavior, as the result is really quite random.

As yet I've found nothing in terms of mouse focus settings etc that changes this.

Any ideas?? Thanks in advance.

Tom

One additional note...something I just noticed. This only seems to occur in the menus within application windows. If I use the keyboard to open the KDE start applications menu, it behaves properly and ignores the mouse unless I move it.

Tom