Indicator Applet panels disable scrolling

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#1

Just upgraded to 22.04 and now I can't access items in the indicator panel. The panel has been seemingly resized to a random size, and Up and Down arrows introduced at the top and bottom. However clicking on these doesn't actually allow you to see the obscured items. I can work around it by guessing where the items are (eg log out is the last item, so I can activate it with the up/down/end/page keys), but I'd like to get rid of the arrows completely. There's plenty of room to draw the full panel, so I've no idea why its trying to help me with the scroll arrows. Examples attached as its hard to explain.
Power menu unusable
menu1
Sound menu is less crazy
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My googling has turned up nothing, but I suspect it would if I hit the magic combination of keywords.

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#2

that generally comes with a theme change after you scroll the whole way close it and reopen it it generally will open full size

#3

Thanks for the reply. Pressing the arrows does precisely nothing. I am unable to see the "Sound Preferences" menu item at the bottom of the Sound dropdown, whatever I do, and I have no clue what's in the other menu, as I can't see any of it.
The condition persists across reboots, logouts, changes to window manager. However your comment did prompt me to try different themes, and I see that about half of them display OK, so I'll just switch to one of those.
Now we've narrowed it down to themes, is there a way to clear theme caches, or reset them. Maybe that would be another solution. Anyway, its workable now, so I'll consider this thread closed. Thanks

#4

It is probably a little late for a reply, however I just came across the same issue after upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04. I'm using ubuntu-mate-desktop and a customized version of the blue-submarine theme.
After a few trial and errors I have found an entry in one of the style sheets causing this problem.
The gtk-widgets.css file in the gtk-3.0 directory of the theme is a section called
".background.csd decoration {...}" containing an entry "border-style: solid;", I changed it to "border-style: none;". After new login I had no scrolling issue anymore.
I'm not sure if this section is always located in the gtk-widgets.css file for all themes.
I hope this may help you or other users to solve the problem.

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#5

Welcome @nios to the community!

#6

My pleasure, I appreciate for your warmly welcome!

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#7

I had a slightly different theme, but this gave me the clues to fix it. Thanks!

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