Upgrade 10.04 -> 12.04, no menus in top panel

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2013/3/18 Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>:
> On 18 March 2013 16:37, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2013/3/18 Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>:
>>> On 18 March 2013 14:26, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 18 March 2013 13:44, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 15 March 2013 09:31, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I have upgraded a 10.04 machine to 12.04 and all is well apart from
>>>>>> the fact that window menus still appear in the windows rather than in
>>>>>> the top panel.  Can anyone suggest which package I should try
>>>>>> re-installing in order to get this working, or what settings may be
>>>>>> awry?  It is using Unity-2d, the graphics does not support 3d.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions on this anyone?
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure - my last PC which only has 2D graphics is too slow for
>>>> Unity to be usable any more, so I switched to Lubuntu.
>>>>
>>>> What graphics chip is it?
>>>>
>>>> I have a distant feeling that this might be normal behaviour, but I've
>>>> not looked at Unity-2D in a couple of years now.
>>>
>>> No, it is not a graphics chip issue, it is fine running off the live
>>> CD.  Something has not upgraded or installed properly on the way to
>>> 12.04.  There were a couple of error dialogs on the way but
>>> unfortunately they seemed to be using non-existent fonts so the text
>>> was just rectangles, and I had to click the (presumed) ok button.
>>>
>>> My thought was to try
>>> sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
>>> but I am not sure whether there are any dangers in doing that.  I have
>>> the additional problem that the machine is a relative's and is three
>>> hours drive away so if anything catastrophic happens I am in trouble.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>
>> Not all software support menus in the top bar. Are you sure you have
>> tried windows that is supposed to work that way? Well, you probably
>> have; Nautilus and Gedit should support it at least. And the terminal
>> of course.
>>
>> If you find out what you need to install, please tell me so I can
>> uninstall that package. I hate that I must move the mouse so much more
>> every time I want to use the menus. If I have a window at the lower
>> right corner for instance, I need to move the mouse pointer maybe
>> 30–40 cm extra (30 cm≈1 ft) to reach the menu. Very stupid design if
>> you ask me…
>
> That gave me the idea of googling for
> ubuntu disable global menu
> which led me to
> http://www.noobslab.com/2012/10/important-thingstweaks-to-do-after.html
> which suggested uninstalling some appmenu packages and by comparing
> the problem machine with another 12.04 one I discovered that
> appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt indicator-appmenu appmenu-gtk3 were not
> installed.  Installing them seems to have fixed it.  So your excellent
> comment has led me to get the menus working and potentially for
> yourself to disable them.
>
> That is what I call a result.
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin

Well, sometimes things turn out well…
Thank you too.


Johnny Rosenberg

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