Bug or what?

[Colin Law]

On 15 July 2014 21:48, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> At Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:36:55 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 15 July 2014 20:51, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>> > Under Ubuntu 14.04, when Unity is configured to 'menu bar in toplevel window
>> > title bar' and you fire up Gimp, you cannot use Gimp menus at all.  Is this a
>> > bug or a know issue?  Should I report this as a bug?
>>
>> Do you mean 'Show the menus for a window in the window's title bar'?
>
> Yes.
>
>> If so then Gimp works ok for me in that mode (and 'in the menu bar').
>> That is with Gimp in multi window mode, I have not seen any problems
>> with the menus at all. When you say you can't use the menus at all,
>> exactly what do you see?
>
> The menus show in the main window's title bar, but trying to click on them
> just shows a 'closed fist' pointer cursor, just like if I wanted to move the
> window around (and that is all I can do). The menus won't drop down.  This is
> firing up gimp without opening an image -- there are no image windows, just
> the main initial ('dummy') window.
>
> This is with a stock Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with Gimp 2.8.10:
>
> ub140464.wendellfreelibrary.org% lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
> Release: 14.04
>
> ub140464.wendellfreelibrary.org% apt-cache policy gimp unity
> gimp:
>   Installed: 2.8.10-0ubuntu1
>   Candidate: 2.8.10-0ubuntu1
>   Version table:
>  *** 2.8.10-0ubuntu1 0
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> unity:
>   Installed: 7.2.1+14.04.20140513-0ubuntu2
>   Candidate: 7.2.1+14.04.20140513-0ubuntu2
>   Version table:
>  *** 7.2.1+14.04.20140513-0ubuntu2 0
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
> Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      7.2.0+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1.2 0
>         500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64
> Packages
>      7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1 0
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

Strange, I have the same versions and see no such problem, though I am
32 bit not 64, but it would be unusual for that to make a difference.

If you logon as guest, or another user, do you see the same problem?

I assume you have not tweaked anything display related, or I am sure
you would have said.

Colin