Missing menus

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Aug 7 09:01:36 EDT 2012


Joe,

Joe Miller <admin at jolyonmiller.co.uk> writes:

> Hi Derek, I've been trying to think of the same thing myself, but
> couldn't come up with anything obvious, except that maybe a recent
> update has affected something. that was why I posted here, in case
> anyone else had the same problem, but it seems not. I agree, it seems
> to me to be an issue with Gnome, but since none of my other software
> is affected?? I don't know!

So you're saying you DID update packages on your system?  Which packages
did you update between when it worked and when it didn't work?

Are there any other Gtk-2 apps on your system?

> The advice on the installation page was to go with the version which
> is supported by my Linux package, which in this case is 1.7.4,
> hopefully I'll get the more recent version when I upgrade Linux.

??  1.7.4?  That's clearly not a GnuCash version, so I have no idea what
you're talking about.

-derek

> On 06/08/12 21:02, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Joe Miller <admin at jolyonmiller.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>> Hi I'm using GnuCash 2.4.7 on Ubuntu 11.04 and I'm having a problem
>>> with missing menus. The unity desktop should display the 'File',
>>> ;Edit' etc menus at the top of the screen when you move the mouse over
>>> the toolbar, but I'm not getting anything. I can get a menu to appear
>>> by pressing alt f but the menu appears half-way down the screen and
>>> doesn't stay visible. If I use the menu to open a different account
>>> file, then the menu appears correctly.
>>>
>>> Can anybody help me on this? I've been using GnuCash for two years
>>> with no problems, this has just recently started happening.
>>
>> Okay, I'll ask: what changed recently?  At first glance this sounds like
>> an issue with Ubuntu/Unity and not an issue with GnuCash.  Moreover,
>> GnuCash is at 2.4.11, but I doubt it will affect this issue.
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Joe
>>
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>>
>> -derek
>>
>
>

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