[i945gm] Right-click menus don't disappear

[nikitakit]

Sometimes, exiting out of a right-click/menu-bar menu doesn't actually close the menu. Sometimes, the actual menu options remain, while other times they are replaced by an empty black box. Launching any new menus over the previous one causes them to "stamp" themselves onto the old menu area.

This happens for "File menu" and similar, as well for context menus (see attached screenshot). Opening up the same menu again once or twice fixes the problem. In the case of the panel issue, I can't find the menu again so I can't make the overlay go away. Clicking on it just clicks on the application under it, and locking/unlocking the screen only "stamps" pure black onto the menu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
DRM.card0.DVI.D.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 modes:
 edid-base64:
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1024x768
 edid-base64:
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1280x1024 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 1024x768 1024x768 832x624 800x600 800x600 800x600 640x480 640x480 640x480 720x400
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Date: Tue Dec 28 12:53:20 2010
DkmsStatus:
 openafs, 1.4.12.1, 2.6.35-23-generic, i686: installed
 openafs, 1.4.12.1, 2.6.35-22-generic, i686: installed
 openafs, 1.4.12.1, 2.6.32-24-generic, i686: installed
MachineType: FUJITSU LifeBook T4215
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
 Socket 1:
   product info: "O2Micro", "SmartCardBus Reader", "V1.0", ""
   manfid: 0xffff, 0x0001
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
 Socket 1:
   5.0V 16-bit PC Card
   Subdevice 0 (function 0) [unbound]
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=64538033-aed8-4b89-a999-5c41c4d49be1 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 01/26/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: FUJITSU // Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
dmi.bios.version: Version 1.11
dmi.board.name: FJNB1B9
dmi.board.vendor: FUJITSU
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ADQCH1E626530000
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnFUJITSU//PhoenixTechnologiesLtd.:bvrVersion1.11:bd01/26/2007:svnFUJITSU:pnLifeBookT4215:pvr:rvnFUJITSU:rnFJNB1B9:rvr:cvnADQCH1E626530000:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: LifeBook T4215
dmi.sys.vendor: FUJITSU
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: maverick
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.35-23-generic

[lspci]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Device [10cf:1380]

[nikitakit (nikitakit)]

And a screenshot...

[Naveen Agarwal (nav.coder)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in XORG.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

Hey nikitakit,

Thanks for your interest in Ubuntu.

Thanks for testing maverick during its development period. Unfortunately it looks like this bug report didn't get attention during the maverick development period. But I see there's not been more comments on the bug since the release, which makes me wonder if this is still an issue for you?

If you've not seen this issue since maverick's release yourself, it may have been solved by kernel or X or other updates that occurred late in the release; if so, would you mind please closing the bug for us? Go to the URL mentioned in this bug report, click the yellow icon(s) in the status column and set to 'Fix Released'.

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[nikitakit (nikitakit)]

I honestly don't understand what's going on with the bug status here. I wasn't involved in any kind of beta-testing for maverick: I've been using the production version ever since its release. The bug occurs at random intervals with all kinds of pop-up menus: right-click, menubar, and others: any of those black-background selection menus that pop up on top of everything else on the screen and are drawn by GTK.

Also, are you sure this is likely to be a bug in X? If I were to guess, I'd think it much more likely to be a bug in GTK, Gnome, or the window manager than a bug in X.

[Pedro Castro (pedrocastro)]

I'm also experiencing this situation. Sometimes this happens with multiple menus, so the screen gets cluttered with all these "sticky" menus. I'm not using desktop Visual Effects.
To remove the menus, some "solutions" are to close the corresponding application or enable Visual Effects (Normal level, for example) and then revert to None.

[Chris Wilson (ickle)]

If desktop effects are not enabled, this sounds very much like it was an UXA bug; now obsolete.