Upgrade 10.04 -> 12.04, no menus in top panel

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2013/3/18 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>:
> 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

I removed those packages now and restarted Ubuntu. Works perfectly,
and I no longer need to go all over the screen to click a menu item!
Nice! Thanks again for the link!
Now I only miss Emerald… it was buggy but I liked it.


Johnny Rosenberg