Comment 2 for bug 693073

When using applications like Terminal, I can see the menu items in the panel. However they are appearing underneath the application window.

When I have windows maximised then I cannot see the menus, but if I move the applications out of the way of the menu drop downs I can then see the menu items.

The menus seem to appear at underneath any and all applications running.

I removed the hotot twitter client that was installed from a ppa and the menus started appearing again. I am not sure if this is a coincidence or if it points to some issue. I will run without hotot installed for the next few days and see if there is any pattern.

The menu for an application only appear when you hover over the name of that application in the top panel. I believe this is the expected behaviour, although you need to make sure you click on an image window when using Gimp as the toolbox does not know about the gimp menu.