avoid having to scroll in GTK popup menu

Question

I am working on a Gnome Panel Applet that displays a pop-up menu on clicking it's icon. The problem is, with lots of entries, the menu does not pop up with the first items visible, but somewhere in the middle. This makes it necessary to scroll up to see the top item (a sub-menu) and the first ones under it. These are really data, not just "menu" choices in the usual sense. Can anyone suggest a fix, other than showing fewer items? This is on Linux. Thanks!

Answer 1

would this work...?

menu.set_active(0)