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I only get menubars as root! {?}

Asked by Gary Kline

Guys,

I've been at this for > 5 hours without success. Ubuntu 12.10 installs clearly, but when I try to lauch the Konsole to continue with a program, the xterm had no menu bar.

Neither did any other application I tried. Like firefox.

On my other Linux installations, everything has a menubar at the top so I can do whatever I wish.

I have tried to use synaptic as myself to remove and reinstall things; no joy.

I can only do this as root.

Removing firefox as root and reinstalling as root and then exec'ing it as myself does not render any different results.

Anyone know why I'm doing wrong?

gary kline

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Gary Kline (kline) said : 		#1

This happened awhile ago. The only way to get the applications title or menu bar was to instantiate the app in the upper left. Then the menu appeared at the extreme left top. Somehow I figured how to alter the setup so that every Konsole [and everything else] had its own menu bar.

Can anybody clue me in?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Is this a new install or a long standing install?

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Gary Kline (kline) said : 		#3

A new install.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

I recommend you make a fresh Ubuntu user and test there, if it's better then we know it's settings based.

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samuel (samuel-h) said : 		#5

On ubuntu the menu bar is hidden at the top on the top bar and is not in the window. Running as root will make the menu bar appear in the window, or do you mean it's missing from that bar at the top as well?

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Gary Kline (kline) said : 		#6

It is missing from the new user as well.

I just mouse-clicked in the middle of my Konsole and
<Control-Shift><M> AKA "Show Menubar" fails. Sorry if i did not explain what I was trying to achieve above, but I want a menubar on every app. Eith <Alt>-M or any other way. I do not want tto have to bring the Konsole or browser--or whatever--to the extreme-upper-left side of my display so the the

"File" "Edit" ... "Help" shows on the top "frame. I want it on the applications.

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Best samuel (samuel-h) said : 		#7

First to fix firefox go to Tools > Add-Ons and disable the Global Menu Bar Integration extension.
Then for other apps run this in a terminal: sudo apt-get autoremove appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-qt

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Gary Kline (kline) said : 		#8

Thanks samuel, that solved my question.