Title bar/menu problem on 14.04

[Jim Byrnes]

On 02/10/2016 11:45 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>

In gedit I see the menus and the filename all of the time. Even if gedit 
is just open and does not have focus I see both the menus and the file 
name. The behavior you describe is what I see in Firefox,tbird and 
libreoffice.

For example right now I am composing this reply in a separate window in 
Thunderbird right along side of the main thunderbird window. In the 
title bar of the unfocused thunderbird I see a reference to this gmane 
news group.  If I click on thunderbird to focus it the menus would appear.

If it was not for the fact that I see the same thing on a live cd, I 
would think it was do to a setting I changed, it is really weird. Both 
of my machines are HP. I can't imagine that that would make a 
difference, but just to check. My daughter left her Lenovo laptop here 
and I will try the live cd on it.

Regards,  Jim