Comment 4 for bug 693073

I have a strange little work around that makes the menus come back most of the time.

When I login, clicking on any of the panel indicators activates but does not display the menus.

If I open a gnome-terminal window, from the Unity bar, the terminal window is drawn in the top left corner of the desktop. Clicking on any of the terminal window menus still has active but invisible menus.

Dragging the terminal window to the middle of the screen and then moving back and clicking on the terminal menus in the top panel usually activates the menus. This works at least half the time.

Sometimes I additionally have to click on the desktop to take away focus from the terminal window and then click on the default menu bar (look like nautilus menu options).

If that does not work then just clicking around usually gets the menus working, although sometimes they still appear under apps, but this has become very rare (1 in 10 times at a rough estimate)

Over the last week as I have been investigating, it seems that the gdm login menus always work, for example the the power menu in the right hand corner always seems to display.

Hope this helps
Thank you.