Title bar/menu problem on 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 10 February 2016 at 20:26, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.

I wish you would try and be more quantitative with your answers.  What
do you mean by 'really slow'.  The pointer /should/ change to a hand
after about 1/3 second, so if by really slow you mean about 1/3 second
then that is the correct behaviour (as I understand it anyway).

>
> 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.

So am I correct to summarise the situation that the only issue is that
with the mice (on Ubuntu/Unity) when you hold the mouse button down it
changes to a hand much quicker than the expected 1/3 second (along
with the repercussions that follow from that)?

Colin