Title bar/menu problem on 14.04

[Jim Byrnes]

On 02/10/2016 01:28 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 9 Feb 2016 23:21, "Jim Byrnes" <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/04/2016 03:51 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Sorry for the delay, I got busy and could not follow up on this right
> away.  I to did a lot of searching and and could find nothing.
>>
>> The only other mouse I have available is a PS/2 mouse.  I plugged it in
> and I see the same behavior I reported above with the other two mice.
>> (ie a slow click produces a hand pointer with the menu not dropping down)
>
> Just to make sure you really are seeing something different to the rest of
> us can you estimate how quickly it changes to a hand please. For me it is
> about 1/3 second which does not cause me any problems.
>
> Colin
>

I'm not sure I can do that accurately, but let me give you an analogy.

Remember I am only seeing this in firefox tbird and libreoffice.  On a 
normal click I would click the menu, it would drop down almost 
immediately and I would release the button when I see it.  Now suppose 
you think something is very hot and you want to test it.  You would 
touch it and lift your hand a fast as you could. That is what I need to 
do to get a menu to drop down in those 3 programs.

Regards,  Jim