Comment 17 for bug 1159707

Me too!!

Just installed Linux Mint 17.2 on my 64-bit Lenovo Edge e420. I'm pretty certain that the Linux Mint menu, taskbar icons, and "applets" were all responsive to left mouse clicks when I first installed this last night, but before the night was over I had noticed I could only access the start menu with Super (Windows) key. Today I have confirmed that this is still the case, and that literally nothing on my taskbar responds to left mouse clicks. Right mouseclicks work just fine, as do keyboard shortcuts, and the programs themselves are all working just fine. They respond to keyboard shortcuts, alt-tab etc., I can switch workspaces with ctrl-alt-left/right, and the mouse works as normal everywhere else on the screen except the taskbar.

Others in this thread have mentioned that switching to text terminal and back again (i.e. CTRL+ALT+F1, CTRL+ALT+F8) is a workaround. This is NOT the case for me! Nothing I do so far has worked. The new cinnamon restart shortcut, CTRL-ALT-ESC, also does NOT work.

It appears from the other comments that nobody at Linux Mint is in a rush to fix this problem. It's got to be an issue unique to Cinnamon as I haven't seen any similar bug reports elsewhere in my Google searching. Come on Mint folks, this thread's almost 2.5 years old! :-)

I've used Mint off and on since 2011. Overall, great OS. But as Harishasham said above:

>> Having a workaround is good enough to hold on to Mint. However, long running unsolved, reproducible bugs are the ugliest bug for well used OS like Mint.

You can say that again!