Menu isn't shown in gedit when run with sudo

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Here's a screen-shot of the issue where the typical menu cannot be shown in the title-bar, because gedit is currently utilizing the title bar itself at the application-level (which is overriding the "desktop-environment-level):
http://neartalk.com/ss/Gedit-No-Menu.png

Temporarily, I'm using pluma instead of gedit as a work-around for the menu-not-displaying-in-title-bar-issue:
sudo apt-get install pluma

Pluma seems to be some previous fork of gedit, and looks like gedit did about two versions ago. Here's a screen shot of pluma, where you can see the correct behavior regarding the title-bar-menu:
http://neartalk.com/ss/pluma.png

FYI Lonnie the issue you are referring to is bug 1518516. It's not the same as this issue.

This bug isn't a dupe of 1518516, it's a slightly different issue.

Same here. Fresh install, fully updated.

Setting UBUNTU_MENUPROXY does not help. Also, if I understand correctly, I'm not affected by #3: if menu is set to display in window titlebar, it works for me (if not using sudo).

The #3 isn't relevant anymore because gedit is patched to disable CSD (Client Side Decorations) on Unity.

However this patch doesn't work for point #2. So when you run gedit as root you get it with CSD and this means no menus. And this affects menus displayed on the panel and in the window titlebar.

This is how gedit looks with CSD normally: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tAION31T1J4/VgKtBTmqWOI/AAAAAAAAW5k/qxa5fz7qXdo/s1600/gedit-minimap.png

With this command, I'm able to run gedit in sudo and get the menu:
sudo -E gedit

The environment variable that matters is DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS.

So you can also get gedit working like this:
pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY GTK_MODULES=$GTK_MODULES DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS gedit

That said, dconf still doesn't work. So it's not possible changing the preferences.

Same problem. New install of 16.04.1.
$ gedit --> shows menu
$ sudo gedit --> does NOT show menu
$ gksudo gedit --> does NOT show menu
$ sudo -i ... # gedit --> does NOT show menu
This happens whether the menus are set for the title bar OR for the top of the screen.
Tried reinstalling gedit. No difference.

Same here with gedit / ubuntu 16.04 unity.

Does same kind of behaviour with Nautilus and Synaptic come from the same "bug" or is it different things ? please see → https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1606627

Same here with gedit / ubuntu 16.04 unity.

still no update or explanation about this problem ? still the same behaviour on 17.04