[Dx-packages] [Bug 1371590] Re: Global menu bar snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, à la Windows 95 Start button

2014-11-21 Thread Michael Doube
For other reasons, I just moved all my ~/.* config files to a backup directory, rebuilt and reinstalled the NVIDIA driver (from NVIDIA's package), and this bug is gone, on my workstation at least. Both laptop and workstation were upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04 (apt-get dist-upgrade) , so perhaps som

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1371590] Re: Global menu bar snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, à la Windows 95 Start button

2014-11-24 Thread Michael Doube
Oops - spoke too soon. Bug still present. Seems to be not quite 100% reproducible - correct behaviour occurs for some programs and some window configurations (maximised vs windowed), and possibly depending on how many programs have been opened since boot. -- You received this bug notification bec

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1371590] [NEW] Global menu bar snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, à la Windows 95 Start button

2014-09-19 Thread Michael Doube
Public bug reported: There is a really old usability bug relating to mouse accuracy, which Ubuntu 14.04 has rediscovered in its global menu. Basically, it's super easy to move your pointer fast and hard to the extreme edge and corners of the screen, so you can hit targets placed there quickly. Bu

Re: [Dx-packages] [Bug 1371590] Re: Global menu bar snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, à la Windows 95 Start button

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Doube
Yes, it's 100% reproducible. The global menu bar does appear, but only if the mouse is a little bit (one pixel or so) away from the top, and not right at the top of the screen. The global menu bar menu items disappear when the mouse is pushed to the very top of the screen and reappear when the mou

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1371590] Re: Global menu bar snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, à la Windows 95 Start button

2014-09-24 Thread Michael Doube
Thanks for looking at this. It's 100% consistent for me, on two very different devices, so I'm surprised that everyone else is having such trouble reproducing it. Perhaps the cursors are the problem, and the pointer is more pointy than expected, after the upgrade? I wanted to attach screenshots b

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1371590] Re: Global menu bar snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, à la Windows 95 Start button

2014-09-24 Thread Michael Doube
OK, here's a little video from my phone showing the menu disappearing and reappearing as the cursor goes over it. ** Attachment added: "14090026.mp4" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1371590/+attachment/4214025/+files/14090026.mp4 -- You received this bug notification bec

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1371590] Re: Global menu bar snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, à la Windows 95 Start button

2014-10-17 Thread Michael Doube
I just noticed that on a fresh boot, with only 'Videos' application open, expected behaviour occurs (menu items appear with cursor hard to top of screen). BUT - when I open another application (Thunderbird) both it and 'Videos' go back to the buggy behaviour - menu items only appear with cursor sl

Re: [Dx-packages] [Bug 1371590] Re: Global menu bar snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, à la Windows 95 Start button

2014-10-21 Thread Michael Doube
Hi Stephen, I had the same thought, but the devices are very different - a laptop with Intel graphics and a workstation with NVIDIA graphics and two monitors (one rotated 90°), so it seems unlikely to be just a config problem. Is there some debug / config info that would help test your idea? On