Re: "Command" pulldown menu doesn't work

* Gary Young (2005-03-05) writes:

> When I open a latex document in emacs, the auctex menu and toolbar 
> appear as expected. I can use my mouse (a Synaptics touchpad) to reveal 
> the pulldown menus for the categories "file," "latex" and so forth. The 
> only exception is the category "command." When I double-tap on 
> "command," nothing happens.
>
> I'm running emacs 21.4 and auctex 11.54 on gentoo linux. (I'm aware that 
> there's an auctex 11.55, but 11.54 is the latest version in gentoo's 
> "portage" system; in any event, at one point I tried hand installing 
> 11.55 and had the same problem.)

Are you using Emacs compiled with the Motif toolkit together with KDE?
Then the following link might help you:

<URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18518>

Somebody should probably file a bug report against KDE as this problem
pops up now and then (in case it really is the problem you are seeing).

-- 
Ralf