Hi, [This comment is a bit long. For those in a hurry, perhaps just read the "important part" set off below. :) ]
As with Dave Russell (comment #15), menus disappear for me constantly as well, both in Firefox and in Thunderbird. I'd say 20+ times an hour rather than 20+ per day. Globalmenus work OK, but right-click and dropdown menus disappear all the time, by either flashing incredibly briefly and then disappearing or sometimes appearing but then disappear as soon as I move the mouse (oddly, using up/down arrow keys does work correctly in this latter case). As with Domingos86 (comment #4), pressing Alt-Tab does seem to correct the problem. Unfortunately, unlike Dave (comment #15), unmaximizing then re-maximizing the effected window does _not_ work for me. ----- BEGIN IMPORTANT PART ----- POSSIBLY IMPORTANT: Unlike Domingos86 (comment #15), best I can tell, I seem to _only_ have the problem when using either the workspace switcher (I use this rarely) or pressing my middle mouse button, which I have mapped to invoke the same Expo view (within the Compiz Expo plugin; I use this constantly). On the other hand, when using the 4 Ctrl+Alt+<arrow key> combinations, I have yet to observe the menus / dropdowns disappearing (I will certainly pay close attention to this and report back if I observe otherwise). THUS, it might be that the initiation of the problem is localized to activating the Expo view (by whatever means) and then switching to a workspace with a Firefox / Thunderbird window. SO, I'm quite curious: Does anyone else besides Domingos86 encounter the problem _without_ going into Expo view shortly beforehand? ----- END IMPORTANT PART ----- I personally keep only one maximized window, Firefox, on workspace 2 and only one maximized window, Thunderbird, on workspace 4. I say this to say: I wonder if another limiting factor might be that the Firefox / Thunderbird window has to be maximized and the topmost (i.e., top of the window z-order) for the problem to occur. Has anyone encountered this problem with Firefox / Thunderbird _not_ being maximized? Thanks as always, Doug -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872207 Title: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened Status in Compiz: Confirmed Status in Unity Distro Priority: New Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This is something which used to happen regularly though not always (I switched to using fallback mode for a while because of it). Basically, drop-down menus in Firefox such as RSS feeds (or in Natty without the global menu the normal application menus were affected too) are simply not shown when clicked on. Context menus also fail to appear. This often disappeared for no apparent reason after I had used Firefox for a while. I haven't seen it for a while, but it has just re-appeared, possibly because I started Unity as "unity --replace" since I am currently testing an application's behaviour with different window managers. I'm sorry if this information is a bit threadbare. Please let me know if I can provide any additional helpful information. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: unity 4.22.0-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,regex,snap,compiztoolbox,place,gnomecompat,resize,session,grid,mousepoll,animation,move,workarounds,imgpng,expo,wall,unitymtgrabhandles,vpswitch,fade,scale,ezoom,unityshell] CompositorRunning: compiz Date: Tue Oct 11 11:57:45 2011 DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-09-08 12:02:24.781017 DistroCodename: oneiric DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: vboxhost, 4.1.4, 3.0.0-12-generic, x86_64: installed GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:040a] InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6410 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=062b1769-7309-4422-a59c-ad30b109d53c ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-27 (14 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 11/20/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A06 dmi.board.name: 0667CC dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A03 dmi.chassis.type: 9 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd11/20/2010:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6410:pvr0001:rvnDellInc.:rn0667CC:rvrA03:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr: dmi.product.name: Latitude E6410 dmi.product.version: 0001 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu3 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu25 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/872207/+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
