No menu when opening gnucash

[Derrick Hudson]

I also like focus-follows-mouse rather than click-to-focus. It does not prevent you from using Unity, though the default behavior does exhibit the problem you noticed. You can disable the global app menu for all applications, or on a per-process basis. Sometimes I use this, and sometimes I use the keyboard to access the menu without losing focus of the window.


http://askubuntu.com/questions/10481/how-do-i-disable-the-global-application-menu

http://askubuntu.com/questions/6784/is-it-possible-to-make-indicator-appmenu-ignore-a-specific-application/6802#6802

export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=

export APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH=1

-Derrick


Lincoln A Baxter <lab at lincolnbaxter.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 11:18 -0400, Normand Fisher wrote:
>> Thanks,
>> Option 1 was the right one.  The test file I had been using was
>deleted.
>> I also found out that I have been tricked by the uniqueness of the
>Unity interface.  When I resized the window I realised that all the
>menu commands are hidden until you move the cursor to the top of the
>page.
>> As soon as I did that, all the icons reappeared on the toolbar.  All
>is OK now.
>> Normand
>
>I think you are use "implicit focus" mouse behavior, wherein you do not
>have to click on a Window to get it into focus.  
>
>This simply does not work with the Unity interface.  Because, a window
>can loose focus or focus can be given to another window while you are
>trying to get to the menus at the top.  I found this IMPOSSIBLE to use
>on Ubuntu 11.10.  
>
>(I am very wedded to this mouse management style. On Windoze (work), I
>use the "Xmouse" powertoy (on my work computer) to achieve the same
>thing.)
>
>The only way I could make the later Ubuntu distributions continue to
>work for me was to use the gnome2 fallback interface.  It is not really
>gnome2 (there are significant differences -- it is less configurable),
>but it is usable. 
>