Public bug reported: When clicking a menu in the gnome shell top bar, such as the notifications, places, or power menus, the menu comes up, but no option can be clicked. It seems that clicks go through to whatever is below the menu, be it an application window or the desktop. The same applies for right clicking application icons in the favourites dock.
The menus work properly just after log in, or after restarting gnome- shell, but change to the incorrect behaviour soon after. This does not seem to be related to any 3rd party application, i.e. it happens even if only using natutilus/gnome-terminal/gedit. It is worth noting that clicking the Application button (or pressing the Super key) to bring up the activities screen allows the menus to work properly again. This workaround seems to always work: open a gnome-shell menu -> unable to select menu items -> press Super (the menu stays open) -> items can now be selected as intended. The following screenshot shows how the mouse pointer selects the Chromium new tab button instead of the gnome power menu item, even if the menu is drawn on top of the Chromium window: http://i.imgur.com/5t4UzBv.png. At this point, pressing the Super key allows the menu to be selected as intended: http://i.imgur.com/xcBOjLO.png. The above happen on Ubuntu Gnome 16.10, with either nvidia-367 or nouveau. It also happened on 16.04 before. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.20.4-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-26.28-generic 4.8.0 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-26-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Sat Nov 5 12:37:18 2016 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-07 (302 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-23 (13 days ago) ** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug yakkety -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1639441 Title: Cannot click items in gnome shell menus or right click menus To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1639441/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
