When both colMenu:true and sortable:true for columns the icons for the colMenu dropdown and sort icons appear on top of the other if the column width is too small for them to appear side by side. You can see the effect in the images below (I’m using the dots as the icon for colMenu dropdown)

https://hallisoft.com/Temp/jqgrid-1.png

Personally I like the colMenu dropdown and prefer to remove the sort triangles completely when colMenu is used. Therefore, I made this change:

thead += imgs;
if(ts.p.colMenu && tmpcm.colmenu) {
thead += ““;
}

Change to

if(ts.p.colMenu && tmpcm.colmenu) {
thead += ““;
}
else{
thead += imgs;
}

To have both icons appear in a narrow column the style sheet could be changed so that colMenu icon is at the left of the column title.