Title bar/menu problem on 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 10 February 2016 at 17:40, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 February 2016 at 17:25, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> I only see this behavior in Firefox,Thunderbird and Libreoffice. To get a
>> menu to drop down I must click and release the mouse button very rapidly. If
>> I don't the pointer changes into a hand and even though I am over a menu I
>> can drag the window around the screen.  I don't think this is proper
>> behavior. I would think over a menu the action would be to drop down the
>> menu and nothing else. If I open the terminal, gedit the software center and
>> others they do not act that way.  On them I can hold the button down
>> indefinitely and it remains a pointer and I cannot drag the window.
>
> Well that is also very odd, I see identical behaviour in gedit and FF.
> If I hold the mouse down it changes to a hand after about 1/3 sec.
> Just to confirm, you see this when booting from a live CD on two
> machines, just by using Settings > Appearance > behaviour to show the
> menus in the title bar?  Very odd indeed, even odder than the symtom
> of changing to a hand quickly which could be due to a mouse problem.

Another question.  In gedit, do you see the text in the title bar
change from the filename to the menu items when you hover the mouse
over it?  Also you should see the equivalent in the other apps.

Colin