Panel and application Menus working but not visible
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Unity |
Fix Released
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Critical
|
Sam Spilsbury | ||
compiz (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Sam Spilsbury | ||
Natty |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Sam Spilsbury | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Sam Spilsbury | ||
Natty |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Sam Spilsbury |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: unity
When logging into the Unity desktop the menus from both the panel indicators and any applications do not draw on the screen. The menu items are there, its just that they are not rendering on the screen - Invisible menus.
The menus are active as for example I can click on the power icon indicator, move the mouse down and select reboot, shutdown, etc. I just cant see the menu as I move the mouse down, so its a bit of a guess selecting menu items.
This same "Invisible" menus effect occurs for all applications, even those that do not display there menubar in the panel (eg. firefox). Drop-downs in web pages and in diaglog boxes also do not show up, but I can still select them and scroll through their options using the up/down arrow keys.
Occasionally when I log in the panel theme reverts back to an older looking theme, with blue coloured icons, rather than the black and white panel icons of the new Ubuntu theme. When the other theme is displayed, icons in the Unity laucher are also displayed using the older icon set.
Also I have a problem with the screen saver not displaying when activated. Again the screen saver is working and I can unlock the screen by blindly typing in my password. I have disabled the screen saver for the time being.
Sorry if this report is file incorrectly under Unity, I am not sure if there is a better place.
System information
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
$ apt-cache policy unity
unity:
Installed: 3.2.8-0ubuntu1
$ apt-cache policy libgtk3.0-0
libgtk3.0-0:
Installed: 2.91.6-0ubuntu2
$ apt-cache policy xserver-
xserver-
Installed: 2:2.13.901-2ubuntu2
Installed from Ubuntu 11.04 alpha1 with daily apt-get upgrades up to 20th December 2010
Thank you
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.2.8-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/
Date: Tue Dec 21 16:12:41 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20101202)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20101202)
MachineType: LENOVO 0831CTO
PciDisplay: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcVersionSign
RelatedPackageV
xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3b1
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.9+repack-1ubuntu3
libdrm2 2.4.22-2ubuntu1
xserver-
xserver-
SourcePackage: unity
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/
dmi.bios.date: 10/26/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6QET61WW (1.31 )
dmi.board.name: 0831CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.name: 0831CTO
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = x86_64, kernel = 2.6.37-10-generic
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | none → 3.2.12 |
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu Natty): | |
assignee: | nobody → Sam "SmSpillaz" Spilsbury (smspillaz) |
milestone: | none → natty-alpha-2 |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
assignee: | nobody → Sam "SmSpillaz" Spilsbury (smspillaz) |
Changed in unity: | |
assignee: | nobody → Sam "SmSpillaz" Spilsbury (smspillaz) |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
milestone: | none → natty-alpha-2 |
tags: | added: unity |
tags: | added: compiz-0.9 |
Changed in unity: | |
importance: | High → Critical |
milestone: | 3.2.12 → 3.2.14 |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 3.2.14 → 3.4 |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
status: | In Progress → Invalid |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu Natty): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
status: | Invalid → Fix Committed |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 3.4 → 3.2.16 |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
When using applications like Terminal, I can see the menu items in the panel. However they are appearing underneath the application window.
When I have windows maximised then I cannot see the menus, but if I move the applications out of the way of the menu drop downs I can then see the menu items.
The menus seem to appear at underneath any and all applications running.
I removed the hotot twitter client that was installed from a ppa and the menus started appearing again. I am not sure if this is a coincidence or if it points to some issue. I will run without hotot installed for the next few days and see if there is any pattern.
The menu for an application only appear when you hover over the name of that application in the top panel. I believe this is the expected behaviour, although you need to make sure you click on an image window when using Gimp as the toolbox does not know about the gimp menu.