FS#24394 - [wxgtk] Menubars disappearing in GTK applications

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Luke McCarthy (shaurz) - Sunday, 22 May 2011, 22:53 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 18:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I've noticed this mainly in Audacity but I've seen it in other programs. The menubar will appear as normal on startup, but some time later it seems to be resized into a small area so you can only click the first item.

It might be a theme bug. The theme I'm using is Clearlooks.

Screenshot attached.
   audacity_menu_problem.png (39.1 KiB)
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 18:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Monday, 23 May 2011, 07:23 GMT
Did you tried with another theme? I can't reproduce it for audacity.
Comment by Luke McCarthy (shaurz) - Friday, 27 May 2011, 23:02 GMT
I've reproduced the problem with other themes.
Comment by Nick Cardullo (kofrad) - Saturday, 04 June 2011, 18:20 GMT
I have experienced a similar bug in the past. Several times when something would be covered with another window it would not properly redraw after bringing the hidden window back up. Similar to what you're experiencing, but not limited to menus. This left missing areas in the window that could be fixed by forcing that section of the window to redraw in some way. I haven't noticed the bug in a while and have since changed themes, so I'm not sure what caused it or if it is totally related.

This is running XMonad, but I've experienced the bug in XFCE4 as well. The apps that were effect most of the time were xfce4-terminal and firefox.
Comment by Luke McCarthy (shaurz) - Saturday, 04 June 2011, 18:23 GMT
It's not a redraw problem, since the menu doesn't respond to clicks outside the area which was drawn. Dragging another window over the top doesn't cause it to redraw. FYI I am using KDE 4.
Comment by Nick Cardullo (kofrad) - Saturday, 04 June 2011, 18:26 GMT
Then the issue must be different from what I experienced. I remember being able to 'fix' the menus by clicking on them causing them to open and thus redraw that area. Best of luck in solving this.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Friday, 29 July 2011, 11:50 GMT
this is too old for being a duplicate for  FS#24805  but check that report as well
Comment by Luke McCarthy (shaurz) - Friday, 29 July 2011, 12:05 GMT
I found that this was a bug in wxWidgets. I have reported it upstream and they have fixed it.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Friday, 29 July 2011, 12:06 GMT
the fix is available right now in a released version? if not, give us the report bug + commit link
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Sunday, 21 August 2011, 13:39 GMT
It wasn't fix in wxgtk 2.8.12.1 and I wasn't able to find the upstream report.

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