Title bar/menu problem on 14.04

[Jim Byrnes]

On 02/02/2016 03:33 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 2 February 2016 at 21:16, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On 02/02/2016 08:41 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2 February 2016 at 14:23, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> If I use unsettings to put the menus in the applications window titlebar
>>>> the
>>>> problem shows up. If I leave the global menus in the top panel there is
>>>> no
>>>> problem.
>>>>
>>>> I don't like my menus in the top panel, that's why I try to put them in
>>>> the
>>>> windows titlebar where they belong.
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you see the same issue if you do it using the setting in System
>>> Settings > Appearance > Behaviour?
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>
>> Yes
>>
>> I went to Unsettings and turned  the Global menu to off. Then I went to
>> Global menu in and put it in top panel. Then I opened Appearance ->
>> Behaviour and set Show the menu for a window to be in the window's title
>> bar.
>>
>> I still see the pointer change to a hand when I click and hold on a menu,
>> but the menus seem to be a little more responsive. That is I don't seem to
>> have to tap and release the mouse button quite so quickly to get a menu to
>> drop down.
>>
>> After making the changes outlined above something else has changed a little.
>> It seemed that some how the system didn't realize the menu was in the title
>> bar. Sometimes rapidly clicking on a menu item would cause the window to
>> open full screen just like double clicking on a blank space in the title bar
>> will. I can't get it to do that anymore.
>
> Do it in the guest account so you know that something that unsettings
> is doing or has done is not messing it up.  Am I right in thinking
> that unsettings is not in the Ubuntu repositories but is from a ppa?
> If that is the case then any problems you have with that need to be
> taken up with whoever maintains it, it is not an Ubuntu issue.
>

When I open up System Settings, Unsettings is the last icon on the right 
end of the Personel section.  Having said that I did install Unsettings 
from a ppa before I noticed it in System Settings. Your question made me 
wonder if my installing it put it there so I logged in to a guest 
account. Unsettings is in the System Settings on the guest account also. 
  I only have logged into a guest account when asked to for trouble 
shooting like this so I don't have much experience with it. So is it 
possible that my installing unsettings when logged in is effecting the 
guest account also?

> When I use the system settings to put the menu in the window bar and
> hold down the mouse button the pointer does change to a hand, it has
> to in order to allow you to drag the window.  It takes about a third
> of a second so it /is/ necessary to let go of the button within that
> time in order to select a menu item, but a third of a second is
> plenty, for me anyway.  I have noticed that if you hold down the mouse
> and immediately move the mouse then it immediately switches to drag
> mode, so if your mouse is particularly sensitive and generates a move
> event then it might cause the effect you are seeing.

I only see this behavior on Firefox,Thunderbird and LibreOffice. Are you 
seeing the hand on other applications also?

I have tried using a trackball and an HP optical mouse and get the same 
results, given what you said above I guess I need to look a mouse 
sensitivity again.

Regards,  Jim

> Colin
>