Submenus appear and disappear rapidly and can't be used

[Nate Eldredge]

I'm using nm-applet under the awesome window manager. Since upgrading to 23.10, when you open the applet's menu and hover over a submenu such as "Available networks" or "VPN Connections", the submenu appears and disappears rapidly (about twice per second), and if you try to mouse over the submenu it disappears completely. This makes it impossible to select an available network, etc.

It worked fine under 23.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: network-manager-gnome 1.32.0-3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-14.14-generic 6.5.3
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Sat Dec 16 13:50:16 2023
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-06-03 (1657 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.13 dev wlo1 proto dhcp src 192.168.1.37 metric 600
 169.254.0.0/16 dev virbr0 scope link metric 1000 linkdown
 172.17.0.0/16 dev docker0 proto kernel scope link src 172.17.0.1
 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlo1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.37 metric 600
 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1 linkdown
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2023-12-14 (3 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport:
 # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
 # you can temporarily override this with
 # sudo service apport start force_start=1
 enabled=0
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2020-08-04T11:07:36.415303
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE STARTUP CONNECTIVITY NETWORKING WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
 running 1.44.2 connected started full enabled enabled enabled missing enabled

[Nate Eldredge (nate-thatsmathematics)]

Oh, actually I think this was a side effect of a different problem: I had a USB ethernet dongle attached which, for some reason, was connecting and disconnecting rapidly. So probably the applet tried to refresh every time this happened. I guess ideally it would still be usable even in this situation, but probably this is not really an issue. I'll investigate the ethernet dongle issue separately.