gtk3 menus popup's at different screen positions

Bug #996923 reported by Ioan
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GTK+
Expired
Medium
Ubuntu
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

hi. open any gtk3 application, click on any menu item, and move cursor across menu left-right to open different menu items. you will see that with some possibility (~1/3) menus open's not under menu item name, but jumps to random screen positions. i've tried different gtk3 themes, then removed all gtk configurations, but bug didn't disappeared.

Tags: gtk3
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Ioan (svyatoy-ioan) wrote :
visibility: private → public
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Ioan (svyatoy-ioan) wrote :

ps. this is ubuntu 12.04 lts with latest updates installed. i use gdm+windowmaker, nvidia videocard.

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Ioan (svyatoy-ioan) wrote :

bug was 'fixed' by removing all gnome/gconf data from home dir.

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Ioan (svyatoy-ioan) wrote :

no :( just console error messages disappeared, menu's still jumping around screen.

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Ioan (svyatoy-ioan) wrote :

problem was resolved by removing ~/.kde completely (with killing gconf before and removing all gconf/gnome/gtk3 configs). how this affects gtk3 - i dont know.

affects: ubuntu-website-content → ubuntu
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gtk:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gtk:
status: New → Invalid
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Geoff Reedy (buf-geoff-v8x) wrote :

To work around this problem you can run: xprop -root -remove _NET_WORKAREA

Changed in gtk:
importance: Medium → Unknown
status: Invalid → Unknown
Changed in gtk:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gtk:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in gtk:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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