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[Steve S <spamsteve04@xxxxxxxxx>]

This will likely be my last contribution post.  I am no longer giving
unity a try.  Even if parts of it weren't acting buggy on my setup, the
very premise of UI evolution is to remove clicks and mouse strokes.
Some of Unity does that other parts like the global menu adds extra
clicks and mouse strokes.  I've even searched on google for any official
statement regarding the philosophy behind the global menu and have come
up empty handed.  if anyone has a link to such a document, I would enjoy
reading it.

Technical update:
Last week my laptop started working half-and-half.  on the laptop screen the global menu hides from me and on my extra monitor connected to the back of my laptop via a VGA port the global menu works just fine.  One system, 2 displays, and 2 different unity global menu behaviors.

I have installed the classic gnome in order to improve my productivity
since this setup is a work setup not just a toy to waste time on.

Resolution:
For anyone that stumbles on this post and doesn't know how to get rid of the Unity monster, here is the command to install the gnome fall back session which looks like the classic gnome.

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

You then simply select this as your login session when you login into ubuntu to take advantage.  Here is a link to better instructions if you need them.
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-classic-gnome-desktop-in-ubuntu-12-04-precise.html

It's a shame because there are some really good improvements in Unity
that are truly on the right track of UI evolution.  I hope they will get
rid of some of the bad Ideas and release a retry version of Unity!

Good luck all

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071523

Title:
  Global menu hides when hovering over it

Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The global menu hides every time I hover over it.

  Menu is hidden normally, moving the cursor to the top edge makes it
  appear. But placing the mouse over it makes it disappear again so I
  can't click on any menu item.

  It's like if the menu was playing hide'n seek XD
  This happens with every application.

  I'm using Ubuntu 12.10

  unity:
    Installed: 6.8.0-0ubuntu2
    Candidate: 6.8.0-0ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 6.8.0-0ubuntu2 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: unity-services 6.8.0-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: 1c9f82d48e11cf1020a6a60893c6c93b
  CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
  CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,imgjpeg,decor,gnomecompat,compiztoolbox,commands,imgsvg,water,grid,vpswitch,regex,animation,place,move,workarounds,resize,mousepoll,imgpng,session,fade,cube,expo,scale,ezoom,rotate,td,unitymtgrabhandles,unityshell]
  Date: Thu Oct 25 15:09:00 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-24 (1 days ago)

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