linuxmint/Cinnamon — Issue #11: Menu stops working
Author: clefebvre
Created: 2011-12-21 13:36:37+00:00
State: open

After a while or some events (it's not clear exactly when this happens), the menu stops responding and it is not possible for the user to click in it or to launch any application from it. Clicking in the menu then acts as if the menu wasn't there, and the click goes through it (basically, you could put a window behind the menu and click it through the menu... it's quite a weird bug) :)

If you look at the output of cinnamon, it mentions a reparenting problem... something related to the search entry. Of course things crash when an item is parented and already has a parent...

.. so now we just need to find where in the code this happens and why.