Title bar/menu problem on 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 12 February 2016 at 17:19, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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 presume you meant that do /not/ get to 2.  Do it from the live
image, if it works ok there then you will know it is probably
settings.

Colin