keyboard navigation of menus does not work when initiated with a mouse

Bug #847606 reported by Rick Spencer
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Triaged
High
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Steps:
1. Point mouse cursor at any menu item, for example the Messaging Menu
2. Click mouse to
result: messaging menu opens
3. Tap right arrow key on keyboard
result: The power menu flashes, then the messaging menu opens again. You cannot navigate to other menus with the keyboard
expected: You can navigate to other menus with the keyboard.

Note that moving the mouse pointer away from the menu allows keyboard navigation

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.14.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
Date: Mon Sep 12 08:40:30 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100329)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-11 (0 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3) wrote :
Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 4.16.0
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-11.10-beta-2
Revision history for this message
Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

thanks for the bug report Rick, this bug as already been reported so I am marking it as a duplicate, feel free to report any other bugs you may find. see bug 834065

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