unity menu right-click menu appears when changing workspaces

[wistle]

I have an intermittent bug in Unity. I have setup unity with a mouse gesture to show workspaces when I move the mouse pointer to the lower right corner. At some point after opening an application from a right-click menu on a launcher icon, the unity laucher appears with the same right-click menu opened whenever I switch workspaces using the above mouse gesture. This happens automatically immediately after switching a workspace without me activating or clicking on the Unity launcher. The Unity laucher is currently set to auto-hide.

I'm running an up to date version for Ubuntu 12.04 (development branch) with Unity 3D.

This bug is intermittent and I have been unable to find a consistent means of duplicating it.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Could you take a screenshot showing the issue?

[wistle (charl-wentzel)]

On 23/04/2012 23:25, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Thank you for your bug report. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Could
> you take a screenshot showing the issue?
I tried, but with a right-click menu open on the unity launcher, the
launcher has focus and I can't activate another program while in this
state. Do you have a suggestion?

Charl

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

run gnome-screenshot from the dash, select a delay of some seconds, do the steps to trigger the bug, wait for the picture to come

[wistle (charl-wentzel)]

On 24/04/2012 10:05, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> run gnome-screenshot from the dash, select a delay of some seconds, do
> the steps to trigger the bug, wait for the picture to come
>
Thanks, didn't know the feature existed. Please see attached
screenshots. On the first shot you can see that the Unity Launcher
already appears as soon as I use the mouse gesture to show the
workspaces. Once I select a workspace, the right-click menu opens.
Clicking anywhere on the desktop or open program closes the Unity
launcher and menu, so it does stay stuck there.

Obviously Eclipse was the last program opened just before the problem
started to occur. I've tried to open other programs for the launcher
(using right-click menus and not), but once it gets stuck its the same
right-click menu (in this case that of Eclipse) that opens every time I
switch workspaces.

I can also confirm that the same problem occurs when using the keyboard,
ie. <super>s to expose and then using arrow keys and <enter> to select a
workspace. So the problem is not related to using mouse gestures.

I've checked CCSM and can't find any overlapping key bindings between
Unity and Expo.

Charl

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, so to summarize:

- you use an hidden launcher
- you go on a workspace with something running
- you do super-s
- you use the arrow keys to move to another workspace
- you press enter

which correctly change your workspace but also opens the right click menu?

Does it happen directly after login? is it specific to some applications? does it happen in a guest session?

I can't confirm here...

[wistle (charl-wentzel)]

On 24/04/2012 13:32, Sebastien Bacher wrote:

> ok, so to summarize:
> - you use an hidden launcher
Yes, auto-hide turned on.

> - you go on a workspace with something running
Don't know if this is relevant. Any workspace I try this from give the same result, even an empty workspace

> - you do super-s
> - you use the arrow keys to move to another workspace
> - you press enter
> Yes. Same result if I use mouse gestures

> which correctly change your workspace but also opens the right click
> menu?
Yes.

> Does it happen directly after login?
No, only after a while. I can open several applications without the problem and then suddenly it happens.

> is it specific to some applications?
No, but it happened a few times with Eclipse. I've installed the version from their site, not the version from the repositories. I've also created a custom right-click menu for it: ~/.local/share/applications/eclipse.desktop. I've attached it.

> does it happen in a guest session?
While experiencing this problem I logged in as a guest. I set the launcher to auto-hide, opened a program using a launcher right-click menu and tried the<super> s technique stated above. The launcher appears when the workspaces are exposed, but once I select a workspace the launcher disappears. When I logged out and returned to my original desktop, the problem remained. So the problem seems to be specific to the user.

> I can't confirm here...
My problem too. It's intermittent, can't find a way to replicate it, it just happens when it feels like it. I can however confirm that once it happens it does not go away until I reboot. I'll reboot and try a few more ways to replicate the problem again, but before I do so is there any log files or setup files I can attach to assist?

Regards
Charl

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Ok, thanks for the reply, setting to low and keeping as New, without steps to trigger it it's going to be hard to debug

[Shannon Black (shannon-netforge)]

i can reproduce something similar on quantal by right click on a launcher item during workspace .. it doesnt open the quicklist, but when you select a workspace it opens it as soon as the workspace is in focus .. thats fine i guess .. who would want to right click an item during workspace right? but now whenever you change workspaces that same quicklist is opened regardless of the last quick list ..

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 987334 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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