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7. November 2011, 13:27:00

thesoothsayer

Posts: 24

Menu keeps popping up

The menu at the top left of the browser keeps popping up similar to when the ALT button is pressed.
Not sure if this is an Opera, Ubuntu, or hardware issue.

Is there anyway to find out?

Happened in my Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10, but never seen it in my older Linux installations on another laptop.

Version information
Version
11.51
Build
1087
Platform
Linux

System
i686, 3.0.0-12-generic-pae

Browser identification
Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.51

Just to add. Don't see the same problem when dual-booting into Windows7.

7. November 2011, 18:20:59

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sgunhouse

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Posts: 66788

No ... if the menu bar is off then tapping (pressing and releasing) Alt should display the dropdown menu. He says that his menu is appearing even without tapping Alt.

8. November 2011, 15:21:46

thesoothsayer

Posts: 24

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

No ... if the menu bar is off then tapping (pressing and releasing) Alt should display the dropdown menu. He says that his menu is appearing even without tapping Alt.



Yup, it's a bit strange and more than a tad irritating.

The browser window or input text boxes also seem to lose focus every so often and I've to click on the address bar and then click in the text boxes again before I can type or use the keyboard to control scrolling as well.

Don't seem to have a similar problem with other browsers so far, so I'm bit perplexed by this. I tried recording keystrokes but nothing seems to have been pressed to cause this.

Would appreciate any suggestions.

9. November 2011, 01:13:44

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sgunhouse

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Posts: 66788

Apparently then don't use totem plugin for viewing videos. sad

Actually I use vlc, but there's a few types it doesn't handle well. Maybe mplayer then?

10. November 2011, 20:19:40

thesoothsayer

Posts: 24

Originally posted by azertyh:

hello,
i had the same issue. the cause is totem.
http://lists.mandriva.com/bugs/2010-07/msg01744.php
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571179



Thanks. I guess that solves part of the mystery.

Still wondering why the text box always loses focus as well. Although that seems to have reduced recently.

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