LibreOffice submenu wrong alignment

[mhenze]

The box of the submenu in LibreOffice is aligned to the right instead of left: http://www.myimg.de/?img=libreofficedfe79.png

I haven't observed a similar behaviour in another application.

Cinnamon version: 1.4.0-UP3-0ubuntu1~precise1 from the Ubuntu PPA.

[ghost]

It does that if the right side of the screen is too close to the mouse to fit the menu box. Perhaps it is trying to fit the entire submenu (including expanded sub-sub menus). Is this really an important bug?

[AlbertJP]

Even with Raikia's help I cannot reproduce this in Mint 12. But perhaps Muffin 1.0.3 is to blame here. On Mint 12 you use 1.0.2.

[mhenze]

It seems to be related with my dual-monitor setup and maybe related to #694. On my left screen, the menu works as expected, the problem only occurs on the right (primary) screen.

@Raikia there is more than enough space to fit the fully expanded menu box. It rather seems that some calculations get screwed up by my dual-monitor setup.

[ghost]

@mhenze : That actually makes perfect sense. Somewhere in the code, its checking for the right side of the left monitor (sequential coordinates). If the menu is too close to the right side of the left monitor, then the menu will appear on the other side of the mouse. If the mouse goes PAST the left monitor's side (AKA: the right monitor), then the code will still execute to make the menu on the other side of the mouse.

I'm not sure where the menu gets its UI code (I'm sure its one of the .js files in /js/ui), but if I find it, I'll write you a quick patch. This isn't a very big bug though.

[AlbertJP]

@Raikia Those menus are probably part of the window manager, muffin. (https://github.com/linuxmint/muffin)

[ghost]

@AlbertJP : You are very correct. I wasn't thinking...of course its part of the window manager. Thanks!

[ghost]

From looking at the commits in both Muffin and GTK 3.3, it appears to me like the bug might have been introduced within GTK 3.3 itself. No code in Muffin was touched that would affect the layout location/size of the menu box. However, the updates between Muffin 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 merged GTK 3.3, which contains a lot of changes in where things are displayed (linuxmint/muffin@a5935f8). You might want to progress this bug upstream to GTK, although I don't think its a big deal at all.

Before you do so, mhenze, I recommend confirming what AlbertJP said about it not affecting Muffin 1.0.2. If it doesn't affect 1.0.2 but it does 1.0.3, then it was introduced in GTK 3.3.

[AlbertJP]

@Raikia Does it also happen when running another GTK 3 based desktop such as Unity or Gnome Shell on Ubuntu 12.04?

[mtwebster]

Closing due to inactivity. If you think this still might be an issue, see the instructions here to try a newer version. If the problem still exists, we'll reopen the issue.

[mhenze]

This is still an issue in 1.5.7-20120906044007-precise