PyGTK tray menu has annoying scroll arrows
 

I've been working on a simple little PyGTK app that shows an icon in the system tray. When you right-click, the pop-up menu appears as expected. However, first the menu appears with just some up and down scroll arrows, and I have to scroll down before it fills in and shows the 3 items, and then the scroll arrows disappear.

I've searched everywhere (GTK+ API, etc.) and can't seem to find a way to disable those scroll arrows, which are clearly not needed. The relevant code snippet is below...

    def _createMenu(self):

        """

        Creates the pop-up menu for the icon.

        """

        self.menu = gtk.Menu()

        quit = gtk.ImageMenuItem(gtk.STOCK_QUIT)

        quit.connect("activate", self.destroy)

        about = gtk.ImageMenuItem(gtk.STOCK_ABOUT)

        about.connect("activate", self.ShowAbout)

        configure = gtk.ImageMenuItem(gtk.STOCK_PROPERTIES)

        configure.connect("activate", self._edit_config)



        self.menu.add(about)

        self.menu.add(configure)

        self.menu.add(quit)



        self.menu.show_all()

        

    def _showMenu(self, status_icon, button, activate_time):

        self.menu.popup(None, None, gtk.status_icon_position_menu, button, activate_time, status_icon)

Further info: I'm using Python 2.52 with GTK+ 2.12.9r2 on Windoze, if that makes any difference.

TIA-- ~ewall