[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 665546] Re: Drop and sub menus don't always show up

2014-01-06 Thread Jim Thomas
I had this problem for years, even on LMDE / Debian installs. I had forgotten about this bug report but now realize that since I switched from Gnome to xfce the problem has gone away. I now use xubuntu and add compiz/emerald to it. This makes sense since as I said back in 2011 I'm fairly certain

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 665546] Re: Drop and sub menus don't always show up

2011-02-21 Thread Jim Thomas
Sorry for the string of comments but I've got one more piece of information. As Roger posted above setting visual effects to none appears to solve the problem. However that is not the end of it. Using the Edit menus approach in my previous post I visited some but not all of the menus while visua

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 665546] Re: Drop and sub menus don't always show up

2011-02-21 Thread Jim Thomas
Adding to my previous comment. What I described above was after a new login. Also in every case when hovering over the menu selection and sliding right the popup does eventually display when the mouse goes off the right of the menu. Having run through all the menus and repeatedly verifying that

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 665546] Re: Drop and sub menus don't always show up

2011-02-21 Thread Jim Thomas
Disabling animations in Compiz does not fix this. I think we are getting false solutions because it is easy to be fooled into thinking that the problem is fixed because of the behavior of the problem. I'm pretty sure that the problem is masked due to some sort of caching of the popup menus (disk