From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Olivier Sirven Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mode specific menus have stopped dropping down Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:18:37 +0200 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France Message-ID: <87oco5slz6.fsf@corwin.home.thebuble.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255819252 16455 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2009 22:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:40:52 +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 00:40:43 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 1MzHx0-0005HS-8t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MzHwz-0004IS-HA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp20-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z2oXwuCyHtnrvds/qmbEhwNKn60= Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Oct 2009 00:18:38 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.224.24.185 Original-X-Trace: 1255817918 news-2.free.fr 7351 82.224.24.185:35217 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173976 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:69060 Archived-At: arcade 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