do the menu_can_hide thing properly. was such a hack before? and the variable was getting set from all kinds of events like motion notify. totally not reliable. now it works all nice.

openbox/event.c

@@ -93,13 +93,10 @@ static gboolean focus_delay_cmp(gconstpointer d1, gconstpointer d2);
 static gboolean focus_delay_func(gpointer data);
 static void focus_delay_client_dest(ObClient *client, gpointer data);
 
-static gboolean menu_hide_delay_func(gpointer data);
-
 /* The time for the current event being processed */
 Time event_curtime = CurrentTime;
 
 static guint ignore_enter_focus = 0;
-static gboolean menu_can_hide;
 static gboolean focus_left_screen = FALSE;
 
 #ifdef USE_SM
@@ -1706,8 +1703,8 @@ static gboolean event_handle_menu(XEvent *ev)
 
     switch (ev->type) {
     case ButtonRelease:
-        if ((ev->xbutton.button < 4 || ev->xbutton.button > 5)
+        if (menu_hide_delay_reached() &&
-            && menu_can_hide)
+            (ev->xbutton.button < 4 || ev->xbutton.button > 5))
         {
             if ((e = menu_entry_frame_under(ev->xbutton.x_root,
                                             ev->xbutton.y_root)))
@@ -1783,12 +1780,6 @@ static void event_handle_user_input(ObClient *client, XEvent *e)
                moved/resized */
             client = moveresize_client;
 
-        menu_can_hide = FALSE;
-        ob_main_loop_timeout_add(ob_main_loop,
-                                 config_menu_hide_delay * 1000,
-                                 menu_hide_delay_func,
-                                 NULL, g_direct_equal, NULL);
-
         if (e->type == ButtonPress ||
             e->type == ButtonRelease ||
             e->type == MotionNotify)
@@ -1804,12 +1795,6 @@ static void event_handle_user_input(ObClient *client, XEvent *e)
     }
 }
 
-static gboolean menu_hide_delay_func(gpointer data)
-{
-    menu_can_hide = TRUE;
-    return FALSE; /* no repeat */
-}
-
 static void focus_delay_dest(gpointer data)
 {
     g_free(data);

openbox/menu.c

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include "debug.h"
 #include "menu.h"
 #include "openbox.h"
+#include "mainloop.h"
 #include "stacking.h"
 #include "client.h"
 #include "config.h"
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ struct _ObMenuParseState
 static GHashTable *menu_hash = NULL;
 static ObParseInst *menu_parse_inst;
 static ObMenuParseState menu_parse_state;
+static gboolean menu_can_hide = FALSE;
 
 static void menu_destroy_hash_value(ObMenu *self);
 static void parse_menu_item(ObParseInst *i, xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr node,
@@ -384,6 +386,12 @@ void menu_free(ObMenu *menu)
         g_hash_table_remove(menu_hash, menu->name);
 }
 
+static gboolean menu_hide_delay_func(gpointer data)
+{
+    menu_can_hide = TRUE;
+    return FALSE; /* no repeat */
+}
+
 void menu_show(gchar *name, gint x, gint y, gint button, ObClient *client)
 {
     ObMenu *self;
@@ -420,6 +428,21 @@ void menu_show(gchar *name, gint x, gint y, gint button, ObClient *client)
                 break;
         }
     }
+
+    if (!button)
+        menu_can_hide = TRUE;
+    else {
+        menu_can_hide = FALSE;
+        ob_main_loop_timeout_add(ob_main_loop,
+                                 config_menu_hide_delay * 1000,
+                                 menu_hide_delay_func,
+                                 NULL, g_direct_equal, NULL);
+    }
+}
+
+gboolean menu_hide_delay_reached()
+{
+    return menu_can_hide;
 }
 
 static ObMenuEntry* menu_entry_new(ObMenu *menu, ObMenuEntryType type, gint id)

openbox/menu.h

@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ void menu_show_all_shortcuts(ObMenu *self, gboolean show);
 
 void menu_show(gchar *name, gint x, gint y, gint button,
                struct _ObClient *client);
+gboolean menu_hide_delay_reached();
 
 void menu_set_show_func(ObMenu *menu, ObMenuShowFunc func);
 void menu_set_hide_func(ObMenu *menu, ObMenuHideFunc func);