Ubuntu GNOME

Menus grayed out for GTK based applications

Bug #1280583 reported by Tulio Lazarini on 2014-02-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1277888: In most apps all menu items are gray / unclickable. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu GNOME	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,

Some days ago, I realized that every GTK application I have on 13.10 Saucy had grayed menu items. Keyboard shortcuts still works, but menu items are unclickable. This bug was reported in Unity as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1277888, but tracedown got libgtk-3-0 (version 3.10.6-0ubuntu1~saucy1 onward) as the primary source for this bug. I got the latest version here (3.10.7-0ubuntu1~saucy1) and the bug still remains.

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Tulio Lazarini (tulio-lazarini) wrote on 2014-02-15:

Screen captured, showing all menu items grayed out. Edit (111.9 KiB, image/png)

Ezeoma Kingsley (goodking707) on 2014-02-27

no longer affects:

ubuntu

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote on 2014-02-27:

Hmm, Why do you need the gnome3-team ppa when you are running Unity? Anyway there where some changes to menus in 14.04 and I suppose we picked up an extra patch there.

And in the future please don't create a new bug, but rather click "Also Affects Project" -> ubuntu gnome. that will add it to the original bug report!

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Alexander Stohr (alexander-stohr) wrote on 2014-03-22:

"no longer affects: ubuntu "

i am running Ubuntu 13 and have the problem after iprobably installing the critical libs for e.g. switching to other desktop environments at login - the problem is not getting fixedby e.g. using the auto-updater. thus i am still affected right now.

the quote above is non-true: the bug still affects ubuntu. and there is no solution without digging the web and doing trial and letting the system admin do somethng non-obvious to the un-educated people by hand.