Title bar/menu problem on 14.04

[Jim Byrnes]

On 02/10/2016 12:16 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> 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
>
>

Update:

I loaded the live cd on the Lenovo and it behaves just the same as on my 
two HP's

While I had the live cd out and used it on my two HP's just to be sure 
and I have to make a couple of corrections.

On the hp laptop I originally said the touchpad did not exhibit the drop 
down menu problem. Now I see that it does, but you have to do a really 
slow click to see the problem.

when running the live cd on the 2 hp's I see that gedit and the terminal 
do exhibit the drop down menu problem. The first time I ran the live ck 
on them I don't think I checked gedit and teminal. I think I just 
checked firefox.

On the installed version of Ubuntu 14.04 on my 2 hp's in gedit and 
terminal (which I said do not have the drop down menu problem) looking 
more closely I see that the menus are not in the titlebar, they are in a 
traditional menubar.

Regards,  Jim