Comment 19 for bug 1159707

I have the very same problem on an Asus EEE PC 1215N (Nvidia video) with Mint 17.2.

In the Cinnamon desktop, the panel applets will react to right-mouse-clicks, but none of them (not even the main menu) do react to left-mouse-clicks. In effect, this renders the whole panel bar unusable.

Because I didn't succeed in finding a working solution, for now the best I could do was circumventing the problem by switching to the Xfce desktop environment. It works, but I would prefer to have a working Cinnamon desktop!

Imho, this is a very serious bug and I really hope this problem will be resolved soon.