Title bar/menu problem on 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 4 February 2016 at 21:13, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> ...
> Ok, ran the live cd on my laptop. To be clear when I say "normal click" I
> mean how I would click the mouse button if I was not really paying attention
> to what I was doing. As opposed to having to rapidly tap the mouse button to
> get the menu to drop down.
>
> Firefox:
>   touchpad - pad -- normal tap  -- no hand - menus drop down
>   touchpad - bar -- normal tap  -- no hand - menus drop down
>   trackball      -- normal tap  -- hand appears - no menu drop down
>   trackball      -- rapid tap   -- no hand - menus drop down
>   hp mouse       -- normal tap  -- hand appears - no menu drop down
>   hp mouse       -- rapid tap   -- no hand - menus drop down
>
> gEdit:
>   With a normal tap the menus drop down as expected. If I press and hold the
> left button a hand appears. This is with all devices.
>
> If I have the trackball or mouse plugged in the touchpad still works as I
> noted above.
>
> So basically the touchpad works just like it did in 12.04, but my usb
> trackball and mouse behave differently in 14.04 than they did in 12.04.
> I'm not sure what it means.  Does 14.04 have a problem with usb? If it did I
> would think more people would be seeing it.
>
> Just a little note. I am in the process of installing 14.04 on my laptop and
> for a little while will have a plain vanilla install of 14.04 to test on
> with no need for the live cd.

I have just tried running off live 14.04.1 I am not seeing the problem
on touchpad or external usb mouse.  Not in Firefox or Gedit.  I did
seem to see it briefly in System Settings but that recovered so not
sure what was going on there.

I know it seems unlikely but it is just possible that both your
trackball and mouse are misbehaving.  Could you borrow another mouse
from someone just to prove that it is not that?  I can't think of any
other explanation for the fact that you see the problem on two
machines and, apparently, no-one else is.  I have searched launchpad
again and cannot find anything.

Having said that I have just thought of another possibility.  That
there is a problem on a small number of machines or types of mouse or
something, and the fact that you use the non-standard setup of menus
in window rather than on top panel means that you are much more likely
to see the problem than the large majority of the rest of us.

Colin