Re: Mode specific menus have stopped dropping down

[Olivier Sirven]

arcade <james@takein.eu> writes:

> Hello
>
> I have been running Emacs - 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
> 2.16.6) on my Debian - Testing (squeeze) box for I guess @ least a mouth (it
> was a routine apt upgrade) with no problems. Until yesterday when
> intermittently the mode specific drop down menus stopped appearing. For
> example: if I load an html page the mode specific HTML & SGML menus appear.
> But, if I click the SMGL menu title nothing appears except small thin
> landscape rectangle below the title. The HTML menu will intermittently work
> on some sessions. I can gain access to the menus via the C-mouse-down-3-
> command but I would like access via the menu bar. This also happens
> intermittently for the Lisp-interaction menu in the scratch buffer & for all
> mode specific menus in nXhtml.
>
> I have Googled the problem & search this forum but have not found anything
> relevant. In the end I deleted all my non-debian emac add-ons, backedup &
> deleted my .emacs file & purged my complete emac 23 installation. I then did
> a 'vanilla' reinstall & still the problem was there.
>
> Any useful pointer on how to fix this would be much appreciated by this
> baffled emac user.

I have the same issue. To be able to access the menu, I found this
trick: hit F10 to display the File menu entry then all other menus will
work as expected. I run gnome, so maybe the F10 key has to be replaced
by another one for other window systems.

Olivier