Context menu of the individual books on Ubuntu 15:10 flawed

[Nikolaus Schneider]

Reported Version 2.49.0. The context menu of the individual books, such as the metadata is not accessible on Ubuntu 15:10

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

This is some incompatibility between Qt 5.5.1 and Ubuntu's default
window manager. It appears to only happen in Ubuntu. I cannot replicate
it in KDE, GNOME or qtile. Not much I can do about this, since it is not
a bug in calibre code. You can downgrade to the previous calibre release
which uses Qt 5.4.2 or just live with the bug until it is fixed in
Ubuntu, which will probably happen i a few months when they update the
version of Qt they ship with the OS to 5.5.1

Instructions for downgrading are ont he calibre linux download page.

 status invalid

[pandaconqueso (pandaconqueso)]

I have the same issue but using the arrow keys and enter does work in the menu.

[Francois Chartier (chartier-francois)]

Same here, it works with the arrow keys, so I can manage.

A weird thing is that is does not affect all menus, and the "Send to device" menu is only affected when a device is connected. Is there a difference it the way the different menus are built or used ?

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Not that I know of.

[elhombresinatributos (paulvarjak)]

Also affected in Ubuntu 16.04 with calibre 2.56.

Right clicking on any book the first menu looks fine but the submenus blink and are not clickable.

Using arrow keys and enter works fine, as pandaconqueso says.

Already in QT 5.5.1

[Kater Mikesch (katermikesch24)]

Xfce on Xubuntu solves the problem. :-)
Am 10.05.2016 15:21 schrieb "elhombresinatributos" <email address hidden>:

> Also affected in Ubuntu 16.04 with calibre 2.56.
>
> Right clicking on any book the first menu looks fine but the submenus
> blink and are not clickable.
>
> Using arrow keys and enter works fine, as pandaconqueso says.
>
> Already in QT 5.5.1
>
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> Title:
> Context menu of the individual books on Ubuntu 15:10 flawed
>
> Status in calibre:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Reported Version 2.49.0. The context menu of the individual books,
> such as the metadata is not accessible on Ubuntu 15:10
>
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[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Setting the environment variable

CALIBRE_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1

will also fix it.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every Friday.

 status fixreleased

[elhombresinatributos (paulvarjak)]

Solved in 2.60

[Regular User (dot.ru)]

If this is really a duplicate of the #1591764 that I reported then no, this is not fixed in 2.60 for me.