Integrated: 8078744: Right half of system menu icon on title bar does not activate when clicked in Metal L&F

[Prasanta Sadhukhan]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:52:26 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhukhan at openjdk.org> wrote:

> If JFrame's window decorations is provided by the Metal LookAndFeel then system menu icon (e.g., which shows Restore, Minimize, Maximize, and Close menu options when clicked) does not activate when clicked on the right edge of the icon
> 
> MetalTitlePane creates a JMenuBar with a system menu icon and a JMenu when clicked on it. This JMenu is created by
> `MetalTitlePane.createMenu`  in the title bar with an empty string and zero-width string doesn't cover the systemmenu icon to activate the menu when clicked on right edge of the icon. Changing the text of the JMenu to a non-zero width character properly sizes the menu button covering and activating the system menu icon even when clicked on right edge i.e anywhere in the icon.
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> Without fix
> <img width="246" height="127" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f872bd95-ea15-4245-9c88-f06834804e9b" />
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> With fix
> <img width="190" height="134" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f79e8e96-0c71-49e0-9501-5b3a12bbcd83" />

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 463b9e00
Author:    Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhukhan at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/463b9e00ce9e348164d8a6eebe27808bb1e93162
Stats:     67 lines in 2 files changed: 66 ins; 0 del; 1 mod

8078744: Right half of system menu icon on title bar does not activate when clicked in Metal L&F

Reviewed-by: tr, dnguyen

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29808