Menus in applications are hidden under the application

I cannot reproduce the same behavior after restart. I hope You have more luck..

Not an X.org bug actually...

Actually, I'm not certain it's a dupe of #687494, but definitely sounds like a compiz bug.

I was struggling a little when submitting the bug. It did not let me choose I dont know, but stubbornly insisted on xorg as the bug package...

Well, now it happened again. All the menus are UNDER the application window, the menus of right mouse click also..

Could I provide some more information? I am totally unsure what iformation could be helpful, can you give me some hint??

I have no sure way to reproduce this, but when it happens, the computer is pretty much unusable.. :-(

Please help me help You :-)

Now I have logged out and logged in again. I opened one nautilus window. The menus were hidden below the window. Through a shortcut I ran grun and then gnome-control-center. In the applications at startup I took off maximus that I have put in.

I have quit Gnome-control-center and closed nautilus window. Now comes one interesing thing:

Now the menus were not visible at all (I could not see the menu of sound, memenu, etc...). I did a right click on the desktop (managed by nautilus), the nautilus menu appeared.

Right after that all the menus appear es expected.

Could the issue be connected to Nautilus drawing the desktop??

I am sorry to be so detailed, but because I have no clue what information could be usefull, I try to explain what I exactly I did hoping it is of some use..

thank you for your bug report, seems to be an issue due to the workaround uploaded this week for gconf hangs

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.2.1+glibmainloop3-0ubuntu4

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compiz (1:0.9.2.1+glibmainloop3-0ubuntu4) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/000_workaround_gconfbackend_init_hang.patch:
    - drop the workaround, the issue has not been confirmed but the update
      broke the menus in unity (lp: #690461)
  * debian/patches/060_move_checks_to_compiz.patch:
    - adapted regarding previous patch
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:19:50 +0100

Well - The effect here, (where unity/compiz was stable and no symptoms like the bug reporter), was immediate.

Have now regressed to where consecutive logins to the Desktop Edition result in unity crashing during login, ie. no launcher, no menu bar, spinning cursor. ( the exact behavior as seen right before /000_workaround_gconfbackend_init_hang.patch was applied.

One of two temp workarounds I had used then is again working, the other somewhat
The somewhat one was to alternate logins from Desktop to Classic , ect.
The working 'workaround' is a small startup script -
#!/bin/bash
sleep 2
compiz

Reverting back to 0ubuntu3 also results in a stable unity/compiz with no issues with consecutive logins ( and again no sign of this bugs issues

I also know that prior to the 000 patch many people were having issues with the Desktop login.

I can confirm Doug's behavior.

Filed a new bug here on 0ubuntu4

Guess it might help if I linked the new bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/691403

elPraga -
if still experiencing issues then possibly set to new nad if a sceenshot could be uploaded somewhere

Did notice that it appears you did a upgrade from kubuntu 10.10, not sure if that's in play.

Helle Doug!
I just managed to update to latest packages. At the moment I did not notice the issue again, but I did only one reboot.

I first updated to Ubuntu 10.10, and then to Natty. I suppose I deleted well all KDE stuff, it should not interfere..

Hi

Can someone change the status to "confirmed" and the importance to "high"? This bug has been in compiz++ for a long time and I need to sit down and solve it (have not had time yet)

I can say this does happen - just did on the Desktop login, (and in retrospect once with the 0ubuntu4 compiz version), but doesn't occur most of the time.
Cannot see any way yet to make it happen at will and a logout/login always 'fixes' - based on what was seen here and some reports from others

While on a desktop (pre alpha1 install) this or related virtually never happens, on a laptop with fresh install yesterday it happens quite regularly
It's not just hidden context menus either, all or some combo of these -
context menus hidden
no dropdown in menus
r. click on launcher icon - launcher goes black
unresponsive launcher icons

The temp 'fix' is however quite simple - opening any available dir. restores any and all functions

I still have this bug after the latest updates. When I start the session and click on menus in the unity panel (the wifi menu for example) they do not appear. However if I right click on the desktop, the Nautilus menu appears, and the behavior of menus in Unity restores to normal.

Still seeing this on today's natty daily livecd. Sometimes restarting compiz fixes it, sometimes not. Switching to metacity also fixes it. I have an ATI Radeon 4850 btw.

This happen sporadically. The menus will be fine until one application is launched from the menu. It seems to happen opening an application from the message menu.

Fullscreened totem brokes menus

When I started AssaultCube (1.1.0.4 downloaded from the website), the unity interface remained above the game. I did not find a way how to get rid of it.

I guess it could be related to this bug. I have all packages up to date.

The.first.happende.to.me.when.I.started.the.game.from.guake.Then.I.tried.to.start.it.from.grun.and.it.worked.fine...I.hope.this.helps...

My.space.is.not.working...

It seems that if I do a right click on desktop showing the Nautilus menu as the very thing after login, the menus appear fine, but if I forget to do this, many times they remain hidden...

Many times also happen that the Unity interface covers the unlock dialog of gnome-screensaver. It is possible to unlock the session, but it is very sonfusing, as no dialog is seen, but the computer does not respond (the only notable defference is when the cursor hovers over the input area - which is not seen - it changes)

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.2.1+glibmainloop4-0ubuntu4

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compiz (1:0.9.2.1+glibmainloop4-0ubuntu4) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/000_fix_stacking.patch:
    - so awaited patch to fix menu stacking issue
      (LP: #693073, #695638, #690461) (congrats smspillaz)
  * debian/patches/065_add_bailer_and_detection_plugins.patch:
    - remove zenity message, now handled in the session level
  * debian/patches/029_default_options.patch:
    - set back to opacity to 100 when dragging windows, seems to have a lot of
      perf issues on some graphic card. (LP: #703458)
  * debian/patches/03_git_fix_maprequest.patch
    debian/patches/04_git_fix_override_redirect_window.patch
    debian/patches/06_git_fix_unmapped_then_remapped_window.patch
    debian/patches/07_git_fix_click_to_focus_issue.patch
    debian/patches/08_make_qt_wine_appearing.patch
    debian/patches/09_git_valgrind_cleanage.patch
    debian/patches/10_git_set_vp_before_window_initialization.patch:
    - misc fixes backported from upstream git head. Fixing flash and gnome-panel
      crash (LP: #683100, #690461)
  * debian/patches/000_workaround_gconfbackend_init_hang.patch:
    - adapt to new version
  * debian/patches/029_default_options.patch:
    - disable ligthning by default on the opengl plugin as it's not really used
      and conflict with unity (LP: #703140)
  * debian/patches/11_git_fix_windows_jumping.patch
    debian/patches/12_fix_warning.patch
    debian/patches/13_fix_window_geometries_and_properties.patch:
    - last minute fix due to regression introduced by the patch above, fix wrong
      geometry and wrong startup position (LP: #707853, #707852)
  * debian/patches/085_add_grid_plugin.patch,
    debian/rules, debian/control, debian/unity.ini,
    debian/compiz-gnome.gconf-defaults
    - add to main (as upstream is doing in the git repository) the grid plugin
      and activate it by default. Replaces the -extra package with a previous
      version
    - tweak the default settings to only have the effect that were specified:
      top -> maximize, left (top or bottom left) -> window half left of the
      screen, right (top or bottom right) -> window half right of the screen
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:05:18 +0100

the first update - 1:0.9.2.1+glibmainloop4-0ubuntu4 has worked fine here on 2 machines
The second, 0ubuntu5, which removed the 000_workaround_gconfbackend_init_hang.patch also has worked fine thru several logout/in's and full restarts

(only using the Desktop > unity login