Setting UBUNTU_MENUPROXY is not effective anymore
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unity |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| unity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When using Gnome-Unity:
- in Ubuntu 13.04, setting the environment variable UBUNTU_MENUPROXY to any value used to bring back the menu at the top of the application window. This could be done per application, e.g.
$ UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=1 gedit
- in Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04, this environment variable is not effective anymore.
As far as I know, there is no way to restore the classical menus for:
- non root users,
- users who wants to keep this Unity feature for all other applications except desired ones,
- applications setting this environment variable in order to ensure their menus are still in the window.
As of today, menu-only applications (empty window with menus) are purged from all menus and result in a 2 pixels-wide window. This has been working for decades and this is still correctly supported on all other operating systems and/or window managers.
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| tags: | added: devel wily |
| tags: | added: trusty vivid |
| Changed in unity: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Sebastien Bardeau (bardeau) wrote | #3 |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.