Ubuntu 11.04: Inconsistent shadows in right-click context menus

[Varun Vijayaraghavan]

Binary package hint: nautilus

The right click context menu on nautilus and the desktop does not have a drop shadow, where as this is present for all the other right click context menus that I have come across. I suggest consistency in the drop shadows.

I don't think this is a theme issue, as this happens with both Ambiance and Equinox Evolution.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

i do see a dropshadow here, could you please take an screenshot of the issue? thanks.

[Varun Vijayaraghavan (varun-kvv)]

Screenshot without dropshadow.

[Varun Vijayaraghavan (varun-kvv)]

Screenshot with dropshadow

[fraggle4 (saitken74)]

I can confirm this as well, shadows do not appear under menus when right-clicking on the desktop. However, I don't have this problem in Chromium; going to install Chrome to see if there's any difference....

I've tried all the suggested configurations provided here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1521911
None of them seem to work for menu shadows on the desktop, though I have yet to see if they affect the ones in Chrome/Chromium.... Will report back.

[Anders Grandt (a.grandt)]

I can confirm this as well.
Running Ubuntu 11.04 with Nvidia graphics and there is no shadow when I right click at the desktop.
Seems to work in Chrome and Firefox, but not Nautilus for example.

Also tried the suggested configureations from ubuntuforums, without any luck!

[Vasilache Anton Ciprian (vasilache-anton-deactivatedaccount)]

I can also confirm this bug.No right click shadows in nautilus.
Running Ubuntu 11.04 with Nvidia proprietary drivers.
In the past I would apply one of the following configurations from this thread in order to solve this problem,

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1521911

but these do not seem to work anymore.

[Robbie Hott (roby2ka)]

I am also having the same issue. For me, also, desktop redraws are incredibly slow (Clicking on an icon on the desktop until it becomes highlighted and when dragging to get a selection box, the box takes forever to draw).

Tried the above suggestions as well, with no success.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Marked as Confirmed, as this happens with me too, and many other commenters too, so ask any questions, logs which might help in finding the problem and fixing it.
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[Varun Vijayaraghavan (varun-kvv)]

I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.04, and the shadows appeared as required.

I then installed the patched nautilus (nautilus elementary) from https://launchpad.net/~am-monkeyd/+archive/nautilus-elementary-ppa. After restarting my session, the right-click shadow disappeared.

On using ppa-purge on the ppa mentioned above, the right-click dropshadow returned.

I guess that it was nautilus elementary that caused the problem. If someone else can confirm this, I think this bug can be closed, as nautilus elementary is not being maintained, as far as I know.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

I can confirm, that this happens with nautilus-elementary, and reassigning to that project.
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[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

This isn't a bug in Ne, It's a bug in Compiz/GTK. If you disable the RGBA colormap in the tweaks tab of preferences the shadows will appear normally.

[klonuo (klonuo)]

Hi
I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and I have disabled RGBA colormap option, but it does not fix this issue: http://i.imgur.com/5detT.png
Context menus in other applications work as should

Is there some other fix?

[klonuo (klonuo)]

After restart drop shadow is now present