Cannot access menus using the keyboard in Java swing applications with jayatana
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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jayatana (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
WIth jayatana installed and locally-integrated menus turned on, when I run a swing application (eg) netbeans and hold the ALT key down so that the menu is displayed across the titlebar, if I press another key (eg the F key) I expect the matching menu to drop down (eg in this case the File menu).
What actually happens is nothing - the menu does not drop down. This means that in Ubuntu 15.04, I cannot select the menu at all using the keyboard - I have to use the mouse.
A workaround is to uninstall jayatana (and restart the session, or you can't run any swing apps), but of course you don't get the locally-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: jayatana 2.7-0ubuntu3
Uname: Linux 3.18.3-
ApportVersion: 2.15.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Jan 28 10:14:51 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-26 (62 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
SourcePackage: jayatana
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-01-20 (7 days ago)
Changed in jayatana (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
I've just received an update from Jayatana's PPA that fixes this (in Trusty).
The update is not yet available in the official Ubuntu repositories, so do not mark the issue as fixed yet!
Don't know when the update will be available there.