F12: Gnome "Menubar" missing on multiple applications,

Wim ten Have whaveten at gmail.com
Sun Dec 13 00:24:19 UTC 2009


On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:08:47 -0800
Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 12 December 2009 02:58 PM, Wim ten Have wrote:
> >    It is simple, if you launch 'gnome-terminal' you have the option
> > to enable "Show Menubar".  Click in the window left mouse button.
> > There you'll find a checkbox.  If it is enabled then the terminal
> > emulator will show "[File] [Edit] [View] [Terminal] [Help]" tabs.
> > This worked perfectly for me under F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10,
> > F11.  But per F12 those seemed gone.  I experience same with other
> > applications (many) like my mailer 'claws'.
> >
> >    I did go as far as cleaning my entire default repos on the GNOME
> >    desktop and rebuilding it.  But it seemed not to help.
> >
> 
> I am shooting completely in the dark here.
> 
> I recently installed globalmenu for Gnome. I enabled the integrate
> with main menu option. Since then I have been unable to access the
> menus for GTK apps even when I am not in Gnome. After I turned that
> option off, I got back my menus.
> 
> Could it be you also had globalmenu installed at some point in time
> and some remnant of that config is messing with your menus?
> 
> Just a thought.

   This could well be the case.  I do indeed have "globalmenu"
   installed but also had it installed previously to me.  Let me take a
   small tour exploring that some time soon.

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-- Wim ten Have. 




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