Missing menus

[Joe Miller]

Hi Tommy, thanks for that link, I've managed to get a partial resolution 
by creating a gnucash.desktop file and setting the execute command 
suggested in the forum link. I've now got the menus at the top, just 
missing the close, maximise and minimise buttons (they do reappear if I 
tab to a separate application and back again!).

Thanks again for your help.

On 07/08/12 15:23, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu
> <mailto:warlord at mit.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Joe Miller <admin at jolyonmiller.co.uk
>     <mailto: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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>
> There was an old bug in early versions of Unity (back in Ubuntu 10.10, I
> believe) where some apps lost their menus. You could work around THAT
> particular bug by setting an environment variable. See the description
> of the bug for details, and especially comment #3 with a link to more
> explicit workarounds, such as setting the  a Gnome launcher:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wxwidgets2.8/+bug/662077
>
> The bug was closed quite awhile ago, but was recently reopened because a
> patch to fix a different bug may have broken it again. Try the
> workaround to see if it restores your menu; note that comment #3 links
> to another bug with more explicit workarounds, such as creating a Gnome
> launcher with the environment variable set.
>
> I have not yet upgraded my Ubuntu system running GnuCash from Ubuntu
> 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS as I'm waiting for the 12.04.1 LTS release
> (pretty standard when moving from LTS to LTS releases) so I haven't had
> the opportunity to see this bug affect GnuCash in Ubuntu yet. If you see
> the bug, try the workaround and please report back to the list.
>
> P.S.: for folks annoyed with Unity, there are plenty of places where
> people have discussed it, and it's probably not worth rehashing any of
> that on this list. Fortunately it's very easy to install any number of
> other desktop environments in Ubuntu, and you can switch to any of them
> at the login screen.