'Right-Click Menu' w/Mouse or Touchpad Fails

[Patrick Gillespie]

When right-clicking anywhere, the contextual menu will only appear for as long as the right mouse button is depressed. If the right mouse or touchpad button is held, attempting to navigate the menu will cause it to disappear. The bug is consistent but I haven't been able to isolate any causes. It seems to appear after a period of inactivity? - long or short. The only way to recover from the bug is to reload the window manager via the Compiz Fusion Icon.

Ubuntu 10.10 x86
Via PPA
AWN 0.4.1
Gnome w/Compiz

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

[onox (onox)]

So you keep the right mouse button pressed? Any reason why you do that or is it just something you noticed? :)

Cannot reproduce this though with external mouse or thinkpad trackpoint with metacity.

[Patrick Gillespie (vermontpoet)]

When the BUG occurs, any context menu will only appear for as long as the right mouse button is depressed. So... if I click on the mouse button, the context menu appears and disappears just as quickly. If I hold down on the right mouse button, the context menu will remain visible until I let up on the button. However, if I then try to browse the context menu, it disappears even if I'm holding down the mouse button. Does that make sense?

[Jesse (jessematsaunders)]

I may have this same bug. Left click menus like selection for multiple instances of a program, "places" applet folder list, or long press menus will display for as the pointer remains on the dock or move to the empty desktop. Once moved onto any window, the menu will disappear.

I have discovered that I can arrow through the items and press enter on a selection as long as the pointer still remains on the dock or desktop.

I have isolated this somewhat, I believe. If I change the window focus mode settings in Cinnamon from either "sloppy" or "mouse" (which both elicite this bug) to click, the the menus behavior normally. Also, "sloppy" allows me to move the mouse onto menus when only the desktop is present (as I assume it doesn't follow focus to the desktop), but with "mouse" I still cannot access the menus (as I assume "mouse" gives focus to the desktop, dismissing the menu).

Changes themes, style, or icon effects seem to have no affect on this bug, even though, with the "curved" style, it appears the the menu and the dock overlap, hence, the pointer doesn't appear to touch a window.

This behavior does not happen with the right click menus, those behave normally.

I took a couple of snapshots to hopefully help illustrate the issue: http://imgur.com/a/EWtZS

Running Linux Mint x64 Cinnamon Edition
Asus RoG G60jx - Intel® Core™ i5 430M;

[Povilas Kanapickas (p12)]

Could you check whether this bug still occurs in the testing packages of this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~p12/+archive/awn ?

Thanks!