xfce4 is blocking keys, if "rclick window" is showing

[nngogol]

Hello @baskerville !

tldr: rclick menu blocks sxhkd in xfce4. 1 minute video explains all: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rd6y6yJM6itX-gdfVqniaVTBs7uN7Kbr/view?usp=sharing

Fresh xfce4 install. sxhkd config:

#!/bin/bash

F1
    sleep .2; \
    notify-send -t 1000 "reload sxhkd"; \
    pkill --signal SIGUSR1 sxhkd;
Print
    scrot /tmp/f1/ 1.png; \
    notify-send -t 2500 "at" "$bname"
super + Return 
    xfce4-terminal

When context menu shows up - it blocks sxhkd. Question:

• how to fix it: how to allow xfce4 DE (or just xfwm4 wm) to pick sxhkd command?
• Should it work like that? If so, I need to think to change my WM(or even DE) to something other?
• at the end of the day: is it bug in xfce4 or sxhkd?
• I'm using xfce4, but I didn't tried other DE (kde, unity, etc. I don't use them. Only xfce4).

OS: xubuntu 20.04.3 DE: Xfce WM: Xfwm4

[ifohancroft]

That's not a problem with sxhkd. If you set the shortcut for scrot from the DE's keyboard shortcuts the result would still be the same. For some reason, many DEs don't seem to pass the keyboard shortcut to the screenshot program (I am guessing to any program) when a context menu is open. My guess, is because you can have keyboard shortcuts for actions in the context menu. The workaround I've found, is to set a keyboard shortcut to scrot with a delay, execute it, then start the context menu.