GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 307100
Applications menu won't stay dropped down when clicked
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:56 UTC
Please describe the problem: When I left-click on the "Applications" menubar item, the drop-down menu appears for a fraction of a second, then disappears, rendering the menu unusable. The same thing happens if I press and hold the left mouse button instead of single-clicking. The adjacent "Places" and "Desktop" menus work just fine. The same problem occurs with any new Main Menu that I add to the panel. Steps to reproduce: 1. Left-click (or press and hold left mouse button) on Applications menu or any "Main Menu" that has been added to a panel. Actual results: The drop-down menu appears for a fraction of a second, then disappears. Expected results: The drop-down menu should stay visible so that I can select something from it. Does this happen every time? Yes. I even created a new user (with no initial ~/.gnome* directories) and was able to replicate the bug when logged in as the new user. Other information: Using Garnome 2.10.1 on Fedora Core 3 with 2.6.11 kernel.
works fine here with the current 2.11
I can confirm it with 2.10. It happens only once but every time a user log in : I presume its due to the new icon cache API from 2.10 since no 2.8 users has its problem. I upgraded to gnome-menu 2.10.2 but problem remains. Every home directories are nfs shares.
I can reproduce it each time after I do a : kill `pidof gnome-panel` Is there a change it'll be solved in 2.10 ? (It's too painfull to migrate my users to 2.12 just for that)
It doesn't happen everytime here but it happens sometimes, I haven't narrowed down the conditions but it definately doesn't happen on first start 2.12 in ubuntu breezy here. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308046 may be related
*** Bug 308046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 316694 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I notice that my menu works with kernel 2.6.12 but not with 2.6.14 (same computer, same configuration). Hope this could help ...
This has started happening for me under 2.13.2. The menu renders for a split second then it appears that the menu is resizing down to a couple of pixels wide/high.
Can we have the priority of this raised?
Am I the only one who thinks this is a serious problem?
If your are under Debian run update-menus as root, it should work again.
Jason: are you sure you're not seeing http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323064 ?
Does anyone still see this with CVS HEAD (or GNOME >= 2.13.5)? I believe some similar issues were fixed.
(In reply to comment #11) > If your are under Debian run update-menus as root, it should work again. > I had exactly this as an issue on the Main Menu whilst running, debian testing, gnome version 2.12.3, gnome-panel version 2.12.2-3 Linux 2.6.15-1-k7 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:42:39 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Issue arose after a regular update using synaptic though do not remember which apps started the issue. Had seen issue before on another debian sarge rc1 box about 3-4 months ago switching to kde fixed the problem! At all times this behaviour occurs to only the Main "Applications" Menu, the "Places" and "Desktop" Menus work perfectly Before fix had tried; Reinstalling gnome-panel gnome-panel-data Created additional users which also saw the same issue, as did logging into gnome desktop as root. Also tried deleting the contents of .gconf and .gconfd, this resulted in a question when logging in of something like "do you want to move gconf to a single file" to which I answered yes, the menu dropped down correctly once but when trying to select a sub-menu recreated the problem as before. Had also tried adding another menu to the panel by right-click "Add to Panel" "Application Launcher" such as Main Menu and Main-Menu>System Tools these exhibit exactly the same issue, however adding a single preexisting application button using this method works fine. Tried update-menus as user but this did not work, running update-menus in a root terminal appears to have fixed the issue, beyond a session anyway If this manifests itself again is there anything I can do to help resolve/report this issue? I am not sure how a mouse using beginner would have ever have found a fix for this as it leaves you in a position where no applications can be launched accept via terminal and knowing the name of the app you want. -derek
Any news on this? Is this fixed? I believe it was caused by a gnome-menus bug.
(In reply to comment #15) > Any news on this? Is this fixed? I believe it was caused by a gnome-menus bug. > I have not seen a reoccurence of this since an update of gnome after my last post.
Let's close it then. Thanks.