Subject: bug#7162: 23.1; clicking in menu bar blank area hangs emacs interface

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:54:23 -0400

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James Harkins wrote:

> When I click in the menu bar area to the right of "Help" (where there is no
> menu), Emacs 23 on my ubuntu 10.04 box "hangs"
[...]
> Ubuntu 10.04 (amd64), gnome desktop, GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,
> GTK+ Version 2.20.0)

Problems with menus and recent gtk versions in Emacs 23.1 are usually

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4122

Try updating to Emacs 23.2, or using

GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 emacs

(Please encourage Ubuntu to update their packages.)