From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Brehmer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mode specific menus have stopped dropping down Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:48:55 +0100 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258524462 11820 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2009 06:07:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:07:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 07:07:35 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 1NAdhW-0005JH-4j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:07:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58707 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAdhV-00059S-Hn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:07:33 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1258472935 02 n21444 HqHOpOyLPetvSVW 091117 15:48:55 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: ZRW2JTZawe+xHpifqAWW9p+hc698aWOXrZE9eZGqCDqtzHytREvlUi User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174764 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:06:47 -0500 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:69863 Archived-At: Did you get a solution? Martin > 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 >> >>