diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index f674c496..712cc136 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2148,6 +2148,7 @@ Marko M
  for pointing out that "Menu button closes" should actually be "Menu key closes"
  for fixing a missing initialization in the c'tor of cSkinLCARSDisplayChannel
  for suggesting to simplify some conditional expressions in skinlcars.c and skinsttng.c
+ for reporting some uninitialized item area coordinates in cSkinLCARSDisplayMenu
 
 Patrick Rother <krd-vdr@gulu.net>
  for reporting a bug in defining timers that only differ in the day of week
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index bbe926c4..92fe649a 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -8063,3 +8063,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   Marko Mäkelä).
 - Simplified some conditional expressions in skinlcars.c and skinsttng.c (suggested
   by Marko Mäkelä).
+- Fixed uninitialized item area coordinates in cSkinLCARSDisplayMenu (reported by
+  Marko Mäkelä).
diff --git a/skinlcars.c b/skinlcars.c
index dc1afe6d..d652251e 100644
--- a/skinlcars.c
+++ b/skinlcars.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: skinlcars.c 3.5 2013/11/15 15:33:00 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: skinlcars.c 3.6 2013/11/16 13:20:19 kls Exp $
  */
 
 // "Star Trek: The Next Generation"(R) is a registered trademark of Paramount Pictures,
@@ -900,6 +900,15 @@ cSkinLCARSDisplayMenu::cSkinLCARSDisplayMenu(void)
   ys03 = ys04 - Gap;
   ys05 = yb15;
 
+  // The item area (just to have them initialized, actual setting will be done in SetMenuCategory():
+
+  xi00 = 0;
+  xi01 = 0;
+  xi02 = 0;
+  xi03 = 1;
+  yi00 = 0;
+  yi01 = 1;
+
   // The color buttons in submenus:
   xb00 = xa06;
   xb15 = xa07;