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Bug 690280 - Context menu unreachable for long menus.
Context menu unreachable for long menus.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 633620
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 690328 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-12-16 05:01 UTC by Gayan Perera
Modified: 2012-12-17 09:45 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.5/3.6


Description Gayan Perera 2012-12-16 05:01:14 UTC 
This happens when right clicking on an application which has a long context menu where the top corner of the menu is at top of the screen. This can be reproduce with Eclipse and Firefox (with spellchecker suggestions). Following is a bug that is reported in the eclipse issues which give a demonstration how to reproduce this.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=343278

What happens is the context menus are only top most in the shell group which renders windows. There for the menu doesn't pops up above the gnome top bar. Instead they appear below the gnome shell top bar which causes the menu to unreachable.

This problem has been resolved in cinnamon desktop which is also based on the gnome-shell code base.
Comment 1 Gayan Perera 2012-12-16 05:04:02 UTC 
I have worked on a patch which brings the cinnamon modification in the gnome 3.6.1 code base. Information is there in the following URL

http://gaps-blog.blogspot.com/2012/12/gnome-shell-popup-menu-problem-solved.html

I will try to attach patch files into this bug which fixed this problem soon.
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-12-17 09:37:53 UTC 
*** Bug 690328 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Stéphane Démurget 2012-12-17 09:43:28 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 633620 ***
Comment 4 Stéphane Démurget 2012-12-17 09:45:00 UTC 
Gayan: that's great news! If you create a patch, can you attach it to the original issue please? (bug 633620) thanks!