Bug#703709: base: Right-Click Menu Goes Past Taskbar

[Holger Levsen]

reassign 703709 gnome
# he confirmed he's indeed using gnome3
tags 703709 - moreinfo
tags 703709 + upstream
thanks

On Freitag, 22. März 2013, Dean Chia wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: minor
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When on Iceweasel, for example, if there is some html button I can click
> that is close to the top of the screen, and I right-click it, sometimes if
> the position is high enough, then the right-click menu appears, but part
> of it is obscured (and unaccessible) under the top taskbar/panel (with the
> Activities, Date & Time, iBus, Wireless icon, battery icon, etc.)
> 
> In other words, for an internet link, there is usually the prompts "Open in
> a New Tab" and "Open in a New Window." Sometimes, when the menu appears
> above my cursor, the "New Tab" option gets cut off.
> 
> I would have expected the system to recognize that there was not enough
> space to expand the right-click menu above my cursor (given that the top
> desktop panel obstructs the top) and INSTEAD expand the right-click menu
> BELOW my mouse cursor.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dean
> 
> P.S. I used Linux Mint. Now I bought a freedom-compatible computer, and I'm
> glad I switched to Debian.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash