Accessibility: Context Menu positioning under Linux

I have a very peculiar usability issue, I know it's a corner case, please bear with me.

I'm running IntelliJ community under linux (mint cinnamon, but had the same issue under ubuntu as well).

When I right-click, the context menu appears VERY close to the cursor (about 1 pixel away). Under GTK, there's the very unfortunate behavior (they call it a “feature”) that you can:

- hold down your right mouse button (which brings up the context menu)…

- … hover over an entry…

- … and release the mouse button to activate that entry.

Since IntelliJ positions the context menu so close to the cursor, I often do the above sequence by accident. I right-click while the mouse is not 100% standing still, the cursor gets moved 1 pixel and by the time I let go of the right mouse button it will activate whatever menu entry the mouse happens to be over. This is annoying for two reasons:

1. It has triggered whatever random action happened to be under the cursor

2. The context menu is gone again

All system applications have a “dead zone” around the right-click point where you can move the mouse and it won't highlight any of the entries, which avoids this problem. As IntelliJ doesn't have that, I keep hitting random context menu entries.

Any advice? Can I configure the context menu cursor offset somehow for IntelliJ?