libreoffice menu bar disappeared

Thanks for the report!

I was able to reproduce the missing menu bar in libreoffice on a kde neon 5.18.0 system if I installed libreoffice-kde and/or libreoffice-kde4 (libreoffice-kde depends on libreoffice-kde4). If either/both of these are installed, then you will not have a menu bar in libreoffice.

My guess is this is because your plasma version is 5 when you're installing libreoffice-kde4. In 19.10, we provide libreoffice-kde5 and I bet this would work but I can't test it because if you update your repos to point to eoan instead of bionic and go to install libreoffice-kde5, it will remove the neon-desktop. Also, since kde neon is based on Ubuntu LTS only, there is no 19.10 version to try.

So for now, I recommend installing libreoffice (do not install libreoffice-kde/libreoffice-kde4):

$ sudo apt install libreoffice

Yes, this does install libreoffice-gnome and libreoffice-gtk3, but that should not conflict with anything you are doing.

The next Ubuntu LTS is 20.04, due in April, and I would expect this issue to go away with libreoffice-kde5 in the kde neon image based on 20.04. So I'll leave this bug open until that is confirmed.

Hi
i think i can wait for 20.04 in April. Meanwhile libreoffice-gtk3 library restores menu bar.
Thanks.

I am running libreoffice in 20.04 and the menu bar is missing. I checked if libreoffice-gtk3 was installed and it was. So I removed it and the menu bar is back!!! The toolbars are not pretty without libreoffice-gtk3 but it is functional again.

Have the same issue, however not on KDE, but on GNOME Flashback in 20.04 (on GNOME shell, the menu is present). Filed a separate bug (#1883423) - can be probably merged.

Similarly as in comments above, uninstalling libreoffice-gtk3 package brings the menu back, but it's an ugly "raw" X11 style menu - it loses all the GNOME styling.

while it sounds like worth fixing it's not impacting our default desktop and didn't get lot of reports or activity so we aren't going to consider it as a rls issue

the same with ubuntu 20.04 in xfce. fixed by uninstalling all libreoffice-{kde,plasma,gtk,gnome}* packages. nevertheless, it looks terrible on a 4k monitor (ie not respecting the font and dpi sizes).

(ubuntu 20.04 xfce)
after removing all of the libreoffice-{gnome,gtk2,gtk3,gtk,kde4,kde5,kde,plasma,qt5} packages (with subsequent apt --purge autoremove) and then tried to install them individually, solo only. the result is appearance of a tiny menubar (at least with a 4k resolution) when any of the aforementioned packages is installed, EXCEPT for libreoffice-gnome and libreoffice-gtk3, for which no menu is present.

Ubuntu 19.10, using Xmonad as my window manager, and noticed the same thing. Just confirming Darko's observation above - uninstalling libreoffice-gtk3 and restarting lowriter appears to have restored the menus (using some small font, but I only have FHD resolution, so fine with me).

In my case (see comment #4 above) it turned out that the lack of menu was caused by unnecessary presence of indicator-applet-appmenu in my GNOME panel. After removing the applet from panel, the menu was back.

For a workaround on Xubuntu 20.04 go to panel preferences > Items > Indicator plugin and set Application Menus (Global Menu) to hidden. This fixes the problem for me.

indeed, this solves the problem! i have reinstalled the libreoffice-gtk3 package, changed the "application menus" to hidden, logged out and back in again, and it worked as described.

Using Ubuntu 20.04, Xfce4, Libreoffice 6.0.7.3. Same problem, missing menu bar.
Solution:
sudo apt remove libreoffice-gtk*

Thanks a million @Jarosław Rafa (raj001): Although interestingly indicator-applet-appmenu was not active in my panel, uninstalling indicator-appmenu via package manager and logging out and back in solved the problem for me.

This is with Ubuntu 20.04 with mate.

The menu bar suddenly disappeared for me as well, in KDE 5.23.

Filed https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146699