Bug 560208

Summary:	Emacs 23.1.1 Gnus package pulldown menus are not accessable
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2	Reporter:	Russell Call <Rthoreau>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	csfnf
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.2
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Description Russell Call 2009-12-03 02:43:51 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 SUSE/3.5.4-1.1.2 Firefox/3.5.4

Using the Gnus package with M-x Gnus, or M-x Gnus-other-frame once the frame or buffer opens you can not select pulldown menus or any Gnus menu item.  The regular emacs menu is still accessable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open emacs
2.M-x Gnus
3.Mouse over to menus and unable to use pull down items


Expected Results:  
Have access to Gnus menu items through the pull down list.

I do use dual monitors with the fglrx ati driver and randr is turned off but I doubt this should be a problem.  I am also using KDE if that makes a difference.

Comment 1 Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg 2009-12-03 11:56:38 UTC

This actually applies to all dynamic menus (c-mode, Auctex, ...).
However, it seems to be fixed in Emacs CVS:
http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=4122

The corresponding bug report in...
* Debian
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550541
* Ubuntu
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs22/+bug/415101

There are some workarounds until this is fixed:
1. export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 before you start emacs, or
2. Press F10 when you want the menu to be updated (i.e. before you access the menu).

Comment 2 Dr. Werner Fink 2009-12-04 08:39:21 UTC

already fixed and submitted

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 558884 ***