Upgrade 10.04 -> 12.04, no menus in top panel

[Colin Law]

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

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> Johnny Rosenberg
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