I am still seeing this in 12.10. I have only seen this happen with virtualbox in seamless mode, and it does affect all indicators. The indicator menu will not display even on a separate monitor from the one where seamless mode is active, yet it does reliably draw the decoration on the panel as if the menu was displayed (see attachment).
Once VirtualBox has focus the indicator menus can be displayed in two ways: 1) giving focus to another non-seamless window, or 2) hitting the VirtualBox hostkey, which defaults to Right Ctrl for me, and reselecting a different indicator. ** Attachment added: "the indicator background on the panel is drawn as if the menu is displayed even though the menu that extends below the panel is not" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/706416/+attachment/3451775/+files/virtualbox_seamless_indicator_menus.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706416 Title: Indicator menus won't open when a VirtualBox seamless VM has focus Status in Unity: Confirmed Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: indicator-applet Ubuntu 10.10 indicator-applet (0.4.6-0ubuntu1) virtualbox-4.0 (4.0.2-69518~Ubuntu~maverick) from VirtualBox's official repository 3) What you expected to happen When: 1. I'm running a "seamless" VirtualBox window 2. this seamless VirtualBox window has focus 3. I click any indicator The indicator menu should open 4) What happened instead The indicator icon background changes, as if it had been opened, but the menu isn't shown. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: indicator-applet-complete 0.4.6-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Jan 22 19:19:47 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: indicator-applet To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/706416/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
