Drop down menus not working in settings

[willfelix7]

The drop down menus, such as streaming quality and language, cannot be changed in settings.
This is on a fedora 34 machine running Version 1.1.68.632.g2b11de83 of Spotify from flathub.

[Erick555]

Do you mean those menus doesn't show up or have no effect? For me they do show up but I didn't test if they work.

[xfgusta]

The drop down menus, such as streaming quality and language, cannot be changed in settings. This is on a fedora 34 machine running Version 1.1.68.632.g2b11de83 of Spotify from flathub.

I can reproduce this. It seems that this only occurs in the Wayland session. I'm also running Fedora 34 (Workstation).

[xfgusta]

I noticed something: when I double-click them very quickly, they show up. But this behavior doesn't occur in the Xorg session (just one click is necessary).

[willfelix7]

I mean the menus don't show up. I can see the streaming quality is set to "Automatic", but the drop-down menu does not appear when I click on it.

I can't replicate xfgusta's double-click method in my Wayland session.

[Erick555]

I don't think anything could be done here. You may report it at https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/bd-p/desktop_linux

[juxuanu]

This has been known for many time.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/spotify#Cannot_open_settings_in_Wayland

[yajo]

Actually somebody reported it upstream and they got a workaround:

Point the mouse arrow on the specific menu and hit 'space'. It will drop down the menu.

Ugly and uncomfortable, but faster than logout and login on Xorg.

[raffaem]

Point the mouse arrow on the specific menu and hit 'space'. It will drop down the menu.

Yeah that works XD

But what is the root cause?

[Adrian-Benavente]

Still experiencing this problem in August 2022. I also noticed it works if you navigate with the keyboard, only with the mouse the dropdowns won't work.

[PotatoesFall]

I still have this issue as well on Fedora 37 Workstation on Wayland in Jan 2023. The workaround of hitting space while clicking is what I'm currently using.

[LukasMangold]

Issue still present.

Fedora Linux 37, 6.1.18-200.fc37.x86_64
Flatpak 1.14.1
Spotify, com.spotify.Client, 1.1.84.716.gc5f8b819 stable, flathub system

[erazemk]

@LukasMangold this is an upstream issue, so unless Spotify themselves fix it (try reporting on their forums), there is not much the packagers can do.