No right-click menu on Notification Area panel item

for which item there? every application is independent and they manage their right click/left in a different form, with which application are you having the issue?.

The application I'm having the issue with is the Notification Area Applet itself. The Network Manager icon, among others, is displayed within this applet. I've attached a screenshot with a red box around the "handle" on the Notification Area applet, where, if you right-click, the menu does not come up, but if you double-right-click, the menu does come up.

works fine here, cannot confirm the issue. Did you tried with another new user created there? Thanks.

I tried with a new user, and experienced the same issue.

This machine was upgraded from 9.10 to the 10.04 beta. Another machine with a fresh install of 10.04 did not have the same issue. To eliminate the possibility that it was a beta-related issue, I created a new virtual machine, installed 9.10, updated it, then upgraded it to 10.04. I am seeing the same issue on this new virtual machine.

While investigating the issue, I discovered the following key in GConf: /apps/panel/need_add_indicator_applet_lucid. It does not appear on the machine where 10.04 was installed from scratch. A Google search on this key brings up the following patch:

http://patches.ubuntu.com/by-release/ubuntu/g/gnome-panel/gnome-panel_1:2.29.91-0ubuntu2.slipped-patch

I wonder whether this patch may be related to the issue.

I have the same issue, my maverick system is a fresh install, but i can't really remember if my computer originally had it or it started acting like that after a while, whenever i need to right click any item on the gnome-panel i didn't know that the double right clicks works, i used to go crazy on the right click button till i get it, but when i read this bug i noticed that it works but with a small delay, after doing a double right click the menu appears but after a small delay, but i have to say, after a few times it starts working with a single right click again, i don't know what's causing it.

I use natty and neither right-click nor double-click works on Dropbox and Clipit. However, with Mail Notification it works.

WORKAROUND: left-click on any other working icon in the notification area (e.g. volume, date, change user), then move mouse towards the faulty icon.

I don't know if the unity case applies on this bug, cause we are talking about gnome-panel, does unity have gnome-panel?