Ubuntu
gnome-panel package

applications menu won't appear

Bug #28249 reported by Chris Moore on 2006-01-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #36272: Gnome main Applications menu panel applet not visible. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-panel (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

Over the last two days I've seen this happen twice. The 'places' and 'system'
menu are both fine, but if I try to open the 'applications' menu, it appears for
a tiny fraction of a second and is then replaced by a small white square. See
the attached screenshot.

I've tried removing the menu bar from the panel and adding it again, but that
doesn't fix it.

Logging out of GNOME and back in fixes the problem.

I've not been able to work out what triggers this.

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Chris Moore (dooglus) wrote on 2006-01-09:

screenshot of the white square where the menu should be Edit (9.2 KiB, image/png)

Created an attachment (id=5614)
screenshot of the white square where the menu should be

see the tiny white square?

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Chris Moore (dooglus) wrote on 2006-01-09:

I logged out of GNOME and back in. The first time I tried to open the
applications menu, it opened OK. Subsequent times I tried, it was back to the
little white square.

I logged out and back in a second time and the same thing happened. The
applications menu worked once, but only once.

This is with the current dapper packages by the way.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2006-01-09:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into
our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 36272.