From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: arcade Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mode specific menus have stopped dropping down Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <25947991.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <25941046.post@talk.nabble.com> <87oco5slz6.fsf@corwin.home.thebuble.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255882313 19684 80.91.229.12 (18 Oct 2009 16:11:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:11:53 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 18 18:11:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MzYMD-0007SA-JR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:11:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39471 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MzYMD-0006jB-2S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:11:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MzYIO-0004io-LY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MzYII-0004fP-VW for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55716 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MzYII-0004fK-SZ for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:58927) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MzYII-0006bk-BL for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MzYIG-0005tk-6c for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:07:40 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87oco5slz6.fsf@corwin.home.thebuble.org> X-Nabble-From: james@takein.eu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69072 Archived-At: Hi Olivier Many thanks for the F10 workaround. I tested in all the emac modes I regularly use & it solves the problem in all of them. Technically this is still a workaround rather than a solution so I might file a bug report about this. Thanks again Bugzilla from the.slaa@gmail.com wrote: > > arcade writes: > > [snip] Until yesterday when >> intermittently the mode specific drop down menus stopped appearing. For >> example: if I load an html page the mode specific HTML & SGML menus >> appear. >> But, if I click the SMGL menu title nothing appears except small thin >> landscape rectangle below the title. The HTML menu will intermittently >> work >> on some sessions. I can gain access to the menus via the C-mouse-down-3- >> command but I would like access via the menu bar. This also happens >> intermittently for the Lisp-interaction menu in the scratch buffer & for >> all >> mode specific menus in nXhtml. >> > [snip] > > I have the same issue. To be able to access the menu, I found this > trick: hit F10 to display the File menu entry then all other menus will > work as expected. I run gnome, so maybe the F10 key has to be replaced > by another one for other window systems. > > Olivier > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Mode-specific-menus-have-stopped-dropping-down-tp25941046p25947991.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.