F12: Gnome "Menubar" missing on multiple applications,
Wim ten Have
whaveten at gmail.com
Mon Dec 14 19:32:21 UTC 2009
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:58:59 +0100
Wim ten Have <whaveten at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:08:24 +1100
> David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> > On 12/13/2009 08:56 AM, Wim ten Have wrote:
> > > Many applications that have dependencies towards seem all to
> > > have lost their "title/window/dressing/top" menu's.
> > Could you post a screen shot somewhere (not the list), because I
> > don't think I see what you describe ?
>
> 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.
>
> For many applications this is not a problem as they give you
> internal handles to control the "Menubar" options. But some do not
> give you access to their configuration items.
>
> Example is my default email frontend 'claws'. I have absolute no
> control to setup and edit my preferences.
>
> Hope this is enought info, if not let me know and i'll provide you
> screen shots.
>
Serving my own problem;
# yum erase gnome-globalmenu-common-0.7.8-1.fc12.x86_64
Seems to do the trick. I figure there's something very wrong with
the gnome-globalmenu stuff.
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-- Wim ten Have.
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