Menus appear empty (only shadow)

[Tony Espy]

Cascading application menus are sometime rendered such that they're hidden behind parent menus.

This was initially seen with xchat-gnome when initiating a "private chat" from the user menu ( right-click -> private chat ).

I've also seen this same issue recently in chromium-browser when creating a bookmark and selecting the Folder drop-down box.

I haven't seen the corruption that's shown in the earlier screenshots for chromium-browser and software-center for quite some time now. What I'm seeing now can be seen in the screen shots in comments #4 and #12.
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[Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3)]

Please note that chromium is community developed/supported software, and is tightly controlled by Google. A linked bug in their database would be useful as well.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Turns out this is not restricted to chromium browser. I've seen corruption with Software Center right-click menus as well ( see attached png ).

[Tony Espy (awe)]

XChat-gnome exhibits a similar, yet slightly different problem. If I click on the users button, and then right-click to start a private chat, the sub-menu sometime is displayed behind the user's widget ( not sure this is really a menu ). I've also attached a screenshot for this.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Note, I'm currently running compiz version:

1:0.9.7.0~bzr2995-0ubuntu5

...and I've noticed that there's a new version in the repository, however it's a partial upgrade scenario, so I'm hesitant to upgrade compiz without further instruction(s).

[Tony Espy (awe)]

After a dist-upgrade this morning, the problem appears to have been resolved across all applications mentioned above.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

OK, I just hit it again... this time with Eclipse, so the issue is *not* fixed, just reduced in frequency. I unfortunately couldn't grab a screen shot this time around. If I can reproduce again, I will attach to the bug. Note, the symptom was the first described ( i.e. menu window painted, but no menu items rendered ).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[wvengen (wvengen)]

Having the same issue using gnome-shell, but only seen with Chromium. I my case the menu does not disappear anymore until Chromium is killed.

[wvengen (wvengen)]

see also bug #793836

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Still seeing the problem with xchat-gnome on an updated 12.04 system occasionally. This usually happens when trying to initiate a private chat with someone. I will try and grab a screen-shot the next time it happens.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Same problem just occurred with chromium-browser ( see attached screenshot ).

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

How is xchat-gnome related? Are you saying you have the bug in chromium and
it? This suggests a bug in a larger package (openbox) or an additional bug
in xchat-gnome. What other packages does this happen with? Are there ones
it never happens with? Can you repeatedly recreate this with either package?

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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

This was bug 931473, bug apparently not fully fixed. I think I've seen this happen once at least.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

I'm not sure it's the same bug. Currently I'm always seeing the menu rendered beneath the parent window per the attached screen shots ( comment #2 and #12 ). The bug as originally reported was more consistent with bug #931473.

One last comment... the problem seems to occur intermittently. I suspended my machine last night, and today I can't seem to reproduce with chromium-browser ( bookmark ) nor xchat-gnome ( private-chat ).

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Running 13.04 now, I'm still seeing this bug quite frequently using chromium-browser and xchat-gnome as previously reported.

Bug #931473 is marked FixReleased as of compiz 0.9.7.0. 13.10 includes compiz 1:0.9.9~daily13.04.18.1~13.04-0ubuntu1.

Still quite broken, and still quite frustrating.

Please let me know if I can provide anymore debug info.

[MC Return (mc-return)]

@awe:
Could you please test this PPA:
ppa:smspillaz/compiz-dev-raring

And report if the issue still occurs ?

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Sure, thanks for the quick response!

[Tony Espy (awe)]

OK, a bit of mud on my face. It seems I hadn't been pestered by update-manager for quite some time, so when I manually ran it, there was quite a large list of updates available. So for much for the "notify me weekly preference" ( but that's another problem ).

I'm quite happy to say that after the update, the problem *finally* seems to be resolved in chromium-browser and xchat-gnome. Awesome!!!

FYI, after the update my system now is running compiz: 1:0.9.9~daily13.06.19~13.04-0ubuntu1.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Sigh...

This is bug is now showing up on my system again. Same problem with both chrome and xchat-gnome. Right-click, and the newest menu doesn't show up on top and thus isn't very use-able. See comment #4 and comment #12 for screenshots.

I'm running raring, and have verified that it's fully up-to-date.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

FYI, I changed the status back to New until someone else can confirm...