Panel requires click+hold on secondary monitor to access menus

[Larry Price]

Description: Ubuntu Yakkety Yak (development branch)
Release: 16.10
unity: 7.5.0+16.10.20160606.1-0ubuntu1

[Impact]
Laptop monitor is primary monitor, then I have a secondary external monitor. When selecting the network manager from the panel with my mouse on the secondary monitor, the menu opens and closes very suddenly. If I hold click the network manager icon and lower my cursor into the menu, I'm able to select the appropriate item. However everything works fine on my primary monitor.

I think it was working fine right after my yakkety upgrade, but happened sometime within the last week.

[Test Case]
1. You need at least a dual-head setup with different resolution (different height is better)

2. Align the bottom sides of two monitors using the unity-control-center

3. Make sure you can open the indicators with a single click on both monitors

[Possible Regressions]
Nothing known.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Added to Trello: https://trello.com/c/2VF6T5QP/21-bug-1595698-panel-requires-click-hold-on-secondary-monitor-to-access-menus

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.5.0+16.10.20160705.4-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.5.0+16.10.20160705.4-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Add missing header to fix compilation error with -Duse_pch=OFF.
  * Filter out fullscreen window in show desktop mode to decide if unity
    must be displayed. (LP: #1597706)
  * Make sure file manager icon is not removed when unpinned. (LP:
    #1578792)
  * Properly calculate the intersection geometry in PanelView::Draw.
    This is needed to properly call SyncGeometries and to avoid problems
    such as lp:1595698. (LP: #1595698)

  [ Eleni Maria Stea ]
  * speeds up the showdesktop plugin in lowgfx mode
  * UnityScreen: only redraw parts of the screen visible in each output
    (LP: #1598770)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * LockScreenAcceleratorController: check if a setting key is available
    instead of crashing
  * ApplicationLauncherIcon: ensure quirks are properly set on icon
    initialization
  * Views: Toggle animators durations based on low-gfx setting (LP:
    #1598770)
  * unity7.conf: use different compiz profile based on
    unity_support_test result (LP: #1598770)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <[e-mail]> Tue, 05 Jul 2016 10:24:14 +0000

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Larry, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/7.4.0+16.04.20160705-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Larry Price (larryprice)]

I'm on Yakkety and I can verify that this has been working for me since it was released in unity version 7.5.0+16.10.20160705.4-0ubuntu last week.

Does testing on yakkety count as verification, or will it still need to be verified on xenial-proposed?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the xenial SRU still needs to be verified, the yakkety version has other changes included and built on a different toolchain so you can't assume they have the same behaviour

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Larry, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/7.4.0+16.04.20160715-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.4.0+16.04.20160715-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.4.0+16.04.20160715-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Eleni Maria Stea ]
  * PanelView: Don't draw it if the geo doesn't intersect the monitor
    geo (as in ezoom)
  * speeds up the showdesktop plugin in lowgfx mode

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Add whitelist for auto-repated keys. (LP: #1586491)
  * Fix scale window activation if in show desktop mode. (LP: #1582056)
  * Order matters in the rendering. Draw launcher shadow after the
    background in all cases. (LP: #1586374)
  * Fallback to volume name if no other identifier is available. (LP:
    #1103593)
  * Do not trigger screensaver on session inactive. (LP: #1587507)
  * Use SwitcherController::SetDetail instead of detail=... (LP:
    #1587618)
  * UnitySettings: Add an option to enable/disable pam account checking.
    (LP: #1460649)
  * Lockscreen: Make sure warning and errors are properly shown to the
    user (LP: #1593696)
  * Add missing header to fix compilation error with -Duse_pch=OFF.
  * Filter out fullscreen window in show desktop mode. (LP: #1597706)
  * Make sure file manager icon is not removed when unpinned. (LP:
    #1578792)
  * Properly calculate the intersection geometry in PanelView::Draw.
    This is needed to properly call SyncGeometries and to avoid problems
    such as lp:1595698. (LP: #1595698)

  [ Alberto Milone ]
  * UnitySettings: Add dconf keys for disabling multitouch gestures (LP:
    #1589520)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * LockScreenAcceleratorController: use key::Grabber to handle allowed
    bindings (LP: #1438754)
  * LockScreenAcceleratorController: check if a setting key is available
    instead of crashing
  * ApplicationLauncherIcon: ensure quirks are properly set on icon
    initialization
  * Views: Toggle animators durations based on low-gfx setting (LP:
    #1598770)
  * unity7.conf: use different compiz profile based on
    unity_support_test result (LP: #1598770)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <[e-mail]> Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:14:41 +0000

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for unity has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.