[mintMenu] icon disappears regularly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
Fix Released
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High
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Clement Lefebvre |
Bug Description
This issue concerns the mintMenu package, version 4.9.4 and some previous versions.
The icon for the main Mint Menu panel applet disappears regularly under different circumstances. The applet is reduced to a single pixel's width and is difficult to click on. When this occurs, the keyboard shortcut still works to activate the menu, but even when this is done, the menu's icon remains missing.
Notably, the circumstance under which this has been an issue has involved putting a laptop running Linux Mint Helena to sleep and waking it back up with a different power source (i.e. putting it to sleep on battery power and waking it up on A/C power, or vice versa). This, however, does not consistently produce the bug. Also, we have verified that the bug can be triggered without involving sleep mode at all. These tests are suggestive, but inconclusive.
Both laptops this has been tested on have dual-core processors, and it was suggested that perhaps it could be a CPU synchronization error, though that is highly unlikely.
There are three known workarounds:
1 - Use the keyboard shortcut or manage to find that single pixel that still accepts the click event.
2 - Find the pixel to right-click and reach the applet's preferences. Untick the "Show button icon" checkbox and retick it.
3 - Run gconf-editor, find the key /apps/mintMenu/
This issue has been discussed at length in this message board: http://
Can you reset mintmenu completely (remove it from the panel, open a terminal, type "rm -rf ~/.linuxmint/ mintMenu" , type "mintmenu clean", reboot, add it to the panel again) and then see if you can reproduce the problem?