From: Olivier Sirven <the.slaa@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mode specific menus have stopped dropping down
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:18:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oco5slz6.fsf@corwin.home.thebuble.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.9023.1255812065.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
arcade <james@takein.eu> writes:
> Hello
>
> I have been running Emacs - 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
> 2.16.6) on my Debian - Testing (squeeze) box for I guess @ least a mouth (it
> was a routine apt upgrade) with no problems. 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.
>
> I have Googled the problem & search this forum but have not found anything
> relevant. In the end I deleted all my non-debian emac add-ons, backedup &
> deleted my .emacs file & purged my complete emac 23 installation. I then did
> a 'vanilla' reinstall & still the problem was there.
>
> Any useful pointer on how to fix this would be much appreciated by this
> baffled emac user.
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
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2009-10-17 22:18 ` Olivier Sirven [this message]
2009-10-18 16:07 ` Mode specific menus have stopped dropping down arcade
[not found] ` <mailman.9054.1255882070.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-17 15:48 ` Martin Brehmer
2009-10-17 19:15 arcade
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