No right-click menu on Notification Area panel item

[Ryan Steele]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Right-clicking on the "handle" on the Notification Area panel item does not bring up the context menu (i.e. Remove from Panel, Move and Lock to Panel).

Double-right-clicking, however, does bring up the menu.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 26 17:06:21 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.29.91-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

for which item there? every application is independent and they manage their right click/left in a different form, with which application are you having the issue?.

[Ryan Steele (rgsteele)]

The application I'm having the issue with is the Notification Area Applet itself. The Network Manager icon, among others, is displayed within this applet. I've attached a screenshot with a red box around the "handle" on the Notification Area applet, where, if you right-click, the menu does not come up, but if you double-right-click, the menu does come up.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

works fine here, cannot confirm the issue. Did you tried with another new user created there? Thanks.

[Ryan Steele (rgsteele)]

I tried with a new user, and experienced the same issue.

This machine was upgraded from 9.10 to the 10.04 beta. Another machine with a fresh install of 10.04 did not have the same issue. To eliminate the possibility that it was a beta-related issue, I created a new virtual machine, installed 9.10, updated it, then upgraded it to 10.04. I am seeing the same issue on this new virtual machine.

While investigating the issue, I discovered the following key in GConf: /apps/panel/need_add_indicator_applet_lucid. It does not appear on the machine where 10.04 was installed from scratch. A Google search on this key brings up the following patch:

http://patches.ubuntu.com/by-release/ubuntu/g/gnome-panel/gnome-panel_1:2.29.91-0ubuntu2.slipped-patch

I wonder whether this patch may be related to the issue.

[Mohammad AbuShady (coalwater)]

I have the same issue, my maverick system is a fresh install, but i can't really remember if my computer originally had it or it started acting like that after a while, whenever i need to right click any item on the gnome-panel i didn't know that the double right clicks works, i used to go crazy on the right click button till i get it, but when i read this bug i noticed that it works but with a small delay, after doing a double right click the menu appears but after a small delay, but i have to say, after a few times it starts working with a single right click again, i don't know what's causing it.

[Adam Szanto-Varnagy (adam-szanto)]

I use natty and neither right-click nor double-click works on Dropbox and Clipit. However, with Mail Notification it works.

WORKAROUND: left-click on any other working icon in the notification area (e.g. volume, date, change user), then move mouse towards the faulty icon.

[Mohammad AbuShady (coalwater)]

I don't know if the unity case applies on this bug, cause we are talking about gnome-panel, does unity have gnome-panel?