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Spyder menu not showing + right click not working

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Issue Report Checklist

  • Searched the issues page for similar reports
  • Read the relevant sections of the Spyder Troubleshooting Guide and followed its advice
  • Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
    • Restarted Spyder
    • Reset preferences with spyder --reset
    • Reinstalled the latest version of Anaconda
    • Tried the other applicable steps from the Troubleshooting Guide
  • Completed the Problem Description, Steps to Reproduce and Version sections below

Problem Description

I installed spyder in a freshly created conda environment several days ago and it used to work just fine. I wanted to use spyder after an Ubuntu update but I cant click on the menu bar entries. When I am clicking on File, Edit, Search ect. thebackground of the text turns blue, so it recognizes the click, but the menu does not show up. I have no idea how to troubleshoot this. I cant still run my python programs in console and hotkeys are working but I cant’ access menus and thus the usage is quite limited. Also right mouse click doens’t seem to work, or the menu is again not displayed.

What steps reproduce the problem?

  1. open spyder 3.2.8-py36_0
  2. click on menu

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

menu should open

Paste Traceback/Error Below (if applicable)

nothing to copy since internal Console is empty except for standard text

Versions

  • Spyder version: 3.2.8
  • Python version: 3.5
  • Qt version: 5.6.2
  • PyQt version: 5.6.0
  • Operating System name/version: Ubuntu 18.04

Dependencies

IPython >=4.0    :  6.4.0 (OK)
cython >=0.21    :  0.28.2 (OK)
jedi >=0.9.0     :  0.12.0 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0  :  5.3.1 (OK)
numpy >=1.7      :  1.14.3 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1  :  0.23.0 (OK)
psutil >=0.3     :  5.4.5 (OK)
pycodestyle >=2.3:  2.4.0 (OK)
pyflakes >=0.6.0 :  1.6.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0   :  2.2.0 (OK)
pylint >=0.25    :  1.8.4 (OK)
qtconsole >=4.2.0:  4.3.1 (OK)
rope >=0.9.4     :  0.10.7 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6   :  1.7.4 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3    :  1.1.1 (OK)

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Comments:15 (4 by maintainers)

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6reactions
rissomcommented, Jan 31, 2019

My co-worker had the same issue and fixed it by leaving full-screen mode with F11. Don’t know what exactly is wrong, but it worked.

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decanbaycommented, Oct 21, 2019

F11 does not work for me but i have realized that the problem is only in the external monitor. Also i have moved hald of the spyder to built in monitor and half of the spyder to 2nd monitor, there is no problem in the built in half. And also in this position, there is a problem. image

But when i change it to this problem solved. image

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