Mode specific menus have stopped dropping down

Mode specific menus have stopped dropping down

[arcade]

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.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Mode specific menus have stopped dropping down

[Olivier Sirven]

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

Re: Mode specific menus have stopped dropping down

[arcade]

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 <james@takein.eu> 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
> 
> 

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Re: Mode specific menus have stopped dropping down

[Martin Brehmer]

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 <james@takein.eu> 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
>> 
>>