Unity launcher menus get stuck if opened during workspace transition

Bug #919194 reported by Adrian Wilkins
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Expired
Medium
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Expired
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

If you right click on a launcher icon while a workspace transition is in progress, the menu will be stuck open, and unresponsive.

Reproduce :

 * Open an application.
 * Move your workspace viewpoint to another workspace
 * The following steps should be done rapidly, immediately after one another
   * Left click on the application icon in the launcher
   * While the workspace is still scrolling, right click on the application icon

This causes the right click menu to open
The menu will be unresponsive to the pointer - mouseover will not highlight menu items. etc

 * Now left-click in the context menu ; this should do nothing
    * The click will actually pass through to the application beneath it, if there is one

The following things will clear the stuck menu :

 * Switching desktops to the left (but not to the right)
 * Opening a right-click menu for another launcher item.

Keyboard impulses appear to continue to work. ctrl-alt-Up and Down keystrokes will now move the menu highlight around ; this is presumably why switching desktop to the left (ctrl-alt-Left) closes the menu.

Oneiric with latest updates at time of writing.

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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote :

Successfully reproduced in Precise.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
importance: High → Medium
Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Bilal this bug does not exist in Precise :-) It was fixed in Unity 5.0.0

Adrian, can you please enable oneiric-proposed repository update Unity from there and let us know if the issue goes away for you. see bug 791810

Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → In Progress
status: In Progress → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Adrian Wilkins (adrian-wilkins) wrote :

Confirm that this bug still occurs in unity 4.28.0-0ubuntu2

(see screenshot)

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Adrian, Is it bug 791810 that you are facing?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for unity because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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