Bug or what?

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:56:21 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 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?

Tried four different users, but all four have basicly the same settings (all
are a sort of 'persistent guest' type user.

And it is the same for a guest session.

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

Things are pretty much out-of-the-box.  Minor tweaks in terms of what is in 
the launcher and/or on the desktop, etc.  Stuff like that.  Default theme and 
default desktop system (Unity).

> 
> Colin
> 

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