unable to click on some indicator icons

[Jonathan Almeida]

Binary package hint: unity

Since I recently updated Ubuntu, I'm not able to click on any indicators (to view the menu) that are on the left of the indicator-applet. However, the time & date, me menu and power indicators work fine. Once I've selected either one of the three, I am then able to move my cursor to the desired indicator I want (i.e the ones that you are not able to directly select).

The indicators I have running have been working fine since I've run updates as of yesterday.

Currently indicators running (from left): Synapse, Tomboy, Caffeine, battery, network, audio, mail icon, time & date, me menu and power icon.

UPDATE: I noticed that when I closed all the applications in the systray (I added Dropbox to the whitelist), and restarted unity (unity --replace) the bug disappeared.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.8-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,shift,move,wall,resize,place,vpswitch,compiztoolbox,imgpng,mag,grid,commands,water,gnomecompat,unitymtgrabhandles,regex,snap,session,zoom,animation,expo,workarounds,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Mon Apr 18 03:17:01 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 virtualbox-ose, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-8-generic, x86_64: installed
 fglrx, 8.840, 2.6.38-8-generic, x86_64: installed
 bcmwl, 5.100.82.38+bdcom, 2.6.38-7-generic, x86_64: installed
 bcmwl, 5.100.82.38+bdcom, 2.6.38-8-generic, x86_64: installed
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service
GraphicsCard:
 ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series] [1002:68e0] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0413]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110329.1)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110329.1)
InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110329.1)
JockeyStatus:
 kmod:wl - Broadcom STA wireless driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use) [auto-install]
 xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio 1558
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=aa8f4543-9ca0-4741-98c2-a72fc546caf0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/30/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A12
dmi.board.name: 0874P6
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A12
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A12
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA12:bd03/30/2011:svnDellInc.:pnStudio1558:pvrA12:rvnDellInc.:rn0874P6:rvrA12:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA12:
dmi.product.name: Studio 1558
dmi.product.version: A12
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu1
version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu12
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

seems somewhat similar to bug #761409