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raist356

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Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 5

[Solved] Drop-down menus not working.

Hello,

After a change of the driver to proprietary (GeForce 840M, driver from repo) my cinnamon started to crash on login, couldn't solve it, so I changed first to xfce, then to gnome.

Currently drop-down menus right click on files and in apps like i.e. tweak tools are showing just few pixel long and in top left corner instead of under the button and I can't choose anything (I can change things using keyboard though).

I searched google and forums, and couldn't find anybody else with problem like that.

Can somebody help me please?

Last edited by raist356 (2016-02-17 09:38:07)

d-mon

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Registered: 2014-10-15

Posts: 18

Re: [Solved] Drop-down menus not working.

I'm using GNOME 3.18, nvidia 358.16-2.1, and experience the same thing. When I right click a folder in Files I see this in the log:

org.gnome.Nautilus[902]: In pixman_region32_init_rect: Invalid rectangle passed

Don't know if it's related. New windows tend to open in the upper left corner in a "minimized" fashion. Menus in Steam isn't displayed at all. winecfg never shows up either. The menus in VLC have started to go upwards as well, instead of just normal drop down. I also see the pixman_region32_init_rect message in the logs when I click a drop-down menu in gnome-tweak-tool (which starts maximized, and when I click "restore" the window is very small. It does not remember the original size/the size it had when it was closed.

rudzha

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Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 19

Re: [Solved] Drop-down menus not working.

I have the very same issue. Most right-click menus and dropdowns in GTK applications don't work. Except for the popover menus, those still work.
I too am running the latest Gnome and Nvidia drivers on a GeForce 650m and I get the same error message.

d-mon

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Registered: 2014-10-15

Posts: 18

Re: [Solved] Drop-down menus not working.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … 4-Released , maybe it is related to this.

The Wayland work includes some memory leak fixes, clipboard and drag and drop fixes, window positioning fixes, and now builds on the new Wayland-Protocols.

It's says wayland though, and I assume we are all using X still.

rudzha

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Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 19

Re: [Solved] Drop-down menus not working.

Nope, that's in active development, Arch ships GTK 3.18.6 currently.
And yeah, I'm on X too. No Wayland for Nvidia.

rudzha

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Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 19

Re: [Solved] Drop-down menus not working.

Well, I solved it, at least for now.
I was running X on my Nvidia card but I switched back to the Intel and everything's fine. No more invisible windows and dropdowns work as expected.

Now I only have to figure out how to run games on the Nvidia card without Bumblebee, while still running Gnome on the Intel card.
This looks promising https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-xrun

egbuk

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Registered: 2015-12-10

Posts: 1

Re: [Solved] Drop-down menus not working.

I have the same problem . I am on latest KDE 5.5-1, nvidia drivers 358.16-2.1 on GeForce 840M, gtk3 3.18.6-1. It also affects Qt4 (4 4.8.7-5) applications, but not Qt5.

DVNO

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Registered: 2014-08-10

Posts: 19

Re: [Solved] Drop-down menus not working.

I also have a optimus-enabled laptop and after switching to nvidia-only this started happening to me too... Intel still works fine, but Steam games just won't run fine under bumblebee... Steam runtime problems, performance problems on 64 bit games, etc... This lack of dev support is SO frustrating...  Gaming on optimus-enabled Arch Linux laptops? Hmmm... Don't think so, just yet. God, I think I might have to setup a dualboot with Windows JUST TO BE ABLE TO PLAY MY GAMES.

raist356

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Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved] Drop-down menus not working.

The same problem is described here:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47151
And I also had to do "Screen 1" workaround.

ggppdd

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Registered: 2015-08-27

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved] Drop-down menus not working.

Changing nvidiaXineramaInfo or nvidiaXineramaInfoOverride works for most programs i use. Firefox and nvidia-settings are still bugged though.

d-mon

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Registered: 2014-10-15

Posts: 18

Re: [Solved] Drop-down menus not working.

Setting nvidiaXineramaInfoOverride as mentioned in the bug-report, and adjusting to my screen setup, fixed my firefox issues. Evolution still has the menus pop up in the upper left corner though... (running xorg-server 1.18.0-4, nvidia 358.16-3) If someone know of a upstream bug for this (either X or nvidia I presume) please link it in the arch bug previously mentioned.

z3ntu

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Registered: 2016-01-02

Posts: 14

Re: [Solved] Drop-down menus not working.

Same problem, noticed it on Nautilus & nm-applet

*** BUG ***
In pixman_region32_init_rect: Invalid rectangle passed
Set a breakpoint on '_pixman_log_error' to debug

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Module"
    Load "modesetting"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Driver "nvidia"
    BusID "1:0:0"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    Option "nvidiaXineramaInfo" "False"
    Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOverride" "False"
EndSection

z3ntu

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Registered: 2016-01-02

Posts: 14

Re: [Solved] Drop-down menus not working.

Fixed using the newest Xorg & nvidia versions!