Title bar/menu problem on 14.04

[Jim Byrnes]

On 02/12/2016 10:43 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 12 February 2016 at 16:18, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> As to the titlebar menus, I have been clinking on menus for 25 plus years
>> now and have never had a problem before. I apparently I don't click fast
>> enough and in the past the speed of the click was never an issue. Again it
>> seems strange to me to put menus in the titlebar and if you don't click fast
>> enough the area they occupy acts just like the rest of the titlebar instead
>> of a drop down menu.
>
> I am still not certain whether you are seeing the normal behaviour
> (where the pointer changes to a hand in about 1/3 second) or whether
> yours changes much faster than that.  Possibly you have difficulty
> judging 1/3 second.  If you watch the seconds on a digital display and
> practice counting 1 2 3 1 2 3 .. with the 1s occurring as the seconds
> tick over then 1/3 second has elapsed when you get to 2 so if you
> click and hold the mouse on 1 then the hand should appear about the
> '2' time.  If the mouse changes well before '2' then it is not your
> clicking ability that is the problem, there is something amiss with
> your system.
>

OK, I did what you suggest. The pointer changes to a hand almost 
instantaneously, certainly seems like I get to 2.  Based on what Oli 
said about me seeing menus below the titlebar on the terminal and gedit 
I think something is wrong with my set up. I have been going and setting 
all the settings I can find to default but so far have not seen any 
difference.


> I seem to remember previously that you said that the mouse button on
> the laptop did not show the problem.  If you see it take 1/3 sec with
> that button, but with the external mouse it is much quicker then there
> is a problem with the system.  By concentrating on how quickly the
> pointer changes to a hand then you are eliminating any questions over
> your personal click speed.
>
> Colin
>

I said that but in a later post corrected myself. I guess when I first 
tested it I did not spend enough time with it as later I saw the same 
problem there also.

Regards,  Jim