** Description changed:
+ [IMPACT]
+
+ * there is no menu available in some scenarios of opening LibreOffice
+ * makes LibreOffice essentially unusable when opening a docuemnt directly
+
+ [TESTCASE]
+
+ * open a existing file from nautilus - no menu in a unity session
+
+ [Regression
Hello,
I paste again (sorry) the comment I made on duplicates as this bug seems
more relavant, and as it can give additional informations. I confirm
this bug with Global Menu on Libre Office in Ubuntu Quantal.
I see 3 types of problem:
- When I open a LibreOffice document directly from file
Comment #75 is the closest to what I experience. Thanks for that good
description, Xavier.
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Title:
Global menubar items do
Ubuntu 12.10 quantal 64bits
Got from PPA
https://launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen/+archive/libreoffice-quantaltest-20120601
Works fine so far, the problem is apprently solved
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@JPi: are you sure you are on 64 bit? Installation fails for me.
and on the link you pasted is written: 40 hours ago Failed to build:
amd64
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Pressing ALT does not show menu items:
When this new version builds successfully, will it also fix the non-
appearance of menu items when ALT is pressed? I raised this in #52, but
I could not tell if the reference to another bug in #53 was in answer to
my question.
Until it is, I'll opt to ditch
@David: Installation works but after a few trials the error reappeared.
Sometimes, independently of how Impress is started the menus are there
and sometimes they aren't. Also the version form PPA fails to start
sometimes.
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@JPi
I have set up the PPA on my Ubuntu desktop and I can't see a new version
of the libreoffice-gtk package, which I think that should contain the
improvements. As @David said, amd64 version of LO apparently failed to
build, so I think that nothing has changed with regard to the menubar
@ Antonio
Many thanks for the clarification. It'll be great when that is fixed as
well, but for now I'll just do without 'indicator-appmenu'. I'm quite
happy to lose a thin slice of my screen space (not even that, in
Firefox) for the sake of speed and flow...
Oddly, this (ALT not bringing up LO
@Peter
Yes, I know. Problem is basically that menus are now implemented in a
new way, and support for that was not as good as we expected at first.
LibreOffice is one of the first apps to use it, and when you use new
things... problems could arise :) Eventually, all apps would implement
this way
@Antonio:
I'm quite happy for the moment :) I wish I had the skill to help fix
these things, but I'm just nowhere near that level. Looking forward to
it all working (until the next release?... :P)
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As an aside, can global menu be disabled interim? Or by an environment
variable? (UBUNTU_MENUPROXY does not work) Because as it stands it
renders libreoffice virtually unusable. Even in the cases where the
menu works initially, it will eventually stop working. Removing
libreoffice-gtk is an
@Raymond: I use 'sudo apt-get remove indicator-appmenu' and restart the
session. The global menu disappears and the menu appears in the
application window, for all the applications (not only LibreOffice).
Handy until the fix is available.
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@Alain: Very handy - thanks.
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Title:
Global menubar items do not work when opening a document directly from
nautilus with
adding this ppa and installing the libreoffice files from it doesn't
change things for mehave the fixes allready been uploaded?
greetings,
David
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I would like to confirm this bug. When I launch Calc from double-
clicking on a .xls file in Nautilus I have the file open in Calc with
menu available in the menu-bar
I would like to add to this bug. When I launch Calc from clicking on a
.xls file in Dash (Files Folders) I have the file open in
@Raymond
It seems to be the same issue. Please, try the updated package when
available (very soon) and check if the issue has been fixed (it should).
@David
Are you using the i386 or amd64 version? I think that packages are still
compiling on Bjoern's PPA...
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@Antonio
i'm on amd64 here. Ok, so it'll take some time, until the packages are
ready. Will try it again in a few days.
greetings,
David
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Is there any progress on the non-appearance of menu items when Alt is
pressed, or is that a different bug?
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Title:
Global
I tested the build with Antonios fixes and found the issue to be fixed
and found no regressions so far. Bug 1071725 is still there, but that is
expected.
Still the changes are nontrivial, so I have some reservations about
kicking this in as an SRU without at least some manual reallife testing
in
@Björn
on wich system did you test the fixes? Are you using amd64? so maybe i
did something wrong? i just added the ppa to synaptic and did an
update.did i miss something? The update installed several packages,
but nothing changed for me. I also tried to delete the libreoffice
folder in my
@David: I tested with my own build (build on my machine) on amd64. There
is no update in the ppa for amd64 as the buider ran out of disc space
there.
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Just a minor quibble/clarification: @Bjorn, in #53, you say that the
i386 ppa build failed; in #55, you say that the amd64 build ran out of
space. It looks like the i386 build completed successfully, so I'm
assuming the i386 in #53 was a typo, and should have been amd64?
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@jrog: yes, sorry. typo indeed.
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Title:
Global menubar items do not work when opening a document directly from
nautilus
uploaded again at https://launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen/+archive
/libreoffice-quantaltest-20120601 -- lets hope for discspace.
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I'd like to test this (and benefit from it, if it works), but am not
sure how to proceed. I've added the ppa, ppa:bjoern-michaelsen
/libreoffice-quantaltest-20120601 to my system and have run 'sudo apt-
get update' and 'sudo apt-get upgrade'. No updated packages were
installed and nothing seems
Peter, visit the PPA website [1] and look at the top right: There you
can see something similar to
libreoffice 3 hours 50 minutes ago
Currently building
It says: Currently building. You have to wait until the package
finishes building. This takes some time, because libreoffice is a big
package.
Thanks - I get it now.
Other commands correct? Please let me know if not.
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Yes, once the build are finish, you will get them installed by running
'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get upgrade'.
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@Björn Michaelsen: amd64 failed again. I'm going to grab the source
and see if I can build it on my machine. I'll let you know if anything
explodes. :)
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Updating this with the latest changes by Antonio in:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature/unitymenus-quantal
this seems to work. Im preparing an ppa-upload for testing right now -- if
there are no issues with it, it should be SRUed.
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Uploaded to https://launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen/+archive
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https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa too, if the build
succeeds.)
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Is this the same bug? On my 12.10 whenever I open a presentation (ODP)
... it doesn't matter if it's from the terminal, nautilius, or
LibreOffice Impress directly, there is no global menu at all; not an
_inactive_ global menu, I mean flat out no menu items at all appear in
the global menu. If I
The problem also occurs if I do open recent when a document is already
open. The second doc opens with no menu displayed.
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Apologies - I think my remarks about the visibility of the menus hold
true, but I am experiencing cases where a previously existing document
(opened as the FIRST document from within the LO 'White Window' ),
displays menus which although VISIBLE, do not FUNCTION... The workaround
MAY be to open a
@Peter
I am the guy responsible for the LO's Unity menubar implementation, and
I apologize for all problems you are having. I commited a fix for this
issue some days ago, but I don't know when it would be released, but it
should be soon.
I know that implementation is far from perfect, but trust
Completely agree with Peter Harvey's previous comment. I know have to
tell people that it is better to wait 2 months before installing a new
Ubuntu version.
Bug #1070051 might be a duplicate.
Do you guys have the items in HUD? Is this related to Bug #1068546?
When menu items don't work, I can
@Antonio
Thanks for the feedback - and for the hard work. I really am grateful
and everything - I just want to be able to say with confidence Linux is
simply better, and it's free as I used to! Looking forward to the fix
:)
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i see the same prob in fresh install ubntu 12.10 (not upgraded fm prev ver). My
libreoffice is a ppa version installed like this
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get install libreoffice libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-help-en-us
libreoffice-pdfimport
Workarounds that i've
@Stefan: Please dont change state unless you are sure this is not a bamf
issue as indicated by ted above.
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Invalid
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu Quantal)
Status: Confirmed = Invalid
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I can confirm this bug locally.
Looking at the D-Bus log, I see:
method call sender=:1.41 - dest=org.ayatana.bamf serial=480
path=/org/ayatana/bamf/window60817505; interface=org.ayatana.bamf.window;
member=Xprop
string _GTK_UNIQUE_BUS_NAME
method return sender=:1.30 - dest=:1.41
The bamf code is a bit hairy, but basically it is synchronously calling
XGetWindowProperty here, so I doubt that it's getting it wrong. Looks
like a libreoffice issue...
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@Ryan: have a look at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1064962/comments/20
So I think basically its neither a libreoffice bug, nor really a bamf bug, but
a specification bug in the way menus are going to be exported by applications...
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@Bjoern @Ryan
I commited a fix for this some days ago. In that fix, window settings
are set before it gets mapped, so this bug should never happen if that
is the issue.
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To help those needing to have a reliable workaround, it is this:
If NO Libreoffice documents are currently open, ensure that you open an
EXISTING file from the general LibreOffice 'White Window'. Then the
menus should be displayed.
This works for me, whereas minimising restoring etc. produce no
On a couple of occasions where I have had a document open in Writer for
a while and have been switching between applications, I have returned to
Writer to find that the menu is no longer showing up. I cannot restore
it by minimizing and restoring, by switching between applications, by
opening new
I have noted the same behavior noted by jrog, too. I end up selecting
all and copying, then creating a new document and pasting. The new
document has menus. Later, I have had this new document behave the same
way the original did. I merely repeat the process. It's cumbersome but I
don't lose the
Also switching the focus to another app and then to LO is a
workaround...
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Title:
Global menubar items do not work when
Again switching the focus to another app and then to LO workaround does not
work for Impress. At least in my case.
LO: Version 3.6.2.2 (Build ID: 360m1(Build:2))
Ubuntu 12.10
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See also
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1069971 for
same/similar issue when opening from within program or with no file open
at all. lo-menubar NOT installed; fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10.
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For me neither minimize/restore nor unfocus/refocus makes the menu
reappear in Impress. My workaround is to open Impress first and the use
the File-open dialog to open my document.
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For now I just removed libreoffice-gtk to get the old menus back.
Something is definitely not really catching events/and or attaching
functionality, because I can sometimes get the menus but nothing works
in them (eg. exit, open file doesn't trigger a thing).
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Status: Invalid = Confirmed
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I noticed that when I open a document and the LO window has no menu bar,
the menu bar comes back when I'm minimizing the LO window and restoring
it (e.g. clicking on its launcher icon).
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** Description changed:
1) Have no instance of LibreOffice running
2) open a document by double-clicking it in nautilus
3) new window has no menu
4) unfocusing/refocusing (e.g. by pressing F7 to bring up the spelling
dialog) makes the menu appear
+
+ WORKAROUND: minimize and restore the
The minimize/restore workaround doesn't seem to work for LO Impress
but it does seem to work for Writer and Calc.
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This is very much present in Quantal final release. Actually this is not
new and various bug reports point in this direction making LibreOffice
quit unusable for the users since clicking on a file to launch it is a
very common approach.
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@aobreyss: fix seems to be targeted at bamf 0.4 branch. There are 3 bugs
targeted for 0.4.0. Two of them are already fixed, this one is
remaining... so I guess Timo is currently working on it ! I'm confident
we will get a fix soon.
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Agree. I think it either should be fixed, or the new menubar should be
reverted.
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Title:
Global menubar items do not work
** Changed in: bamf
Milestone: 0.3.4 = 0.4.0
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Title:
Global menubar items do not work when opening a document directly
** Changed in: bamf (Ubuntu Quantal)
Milestone: None = quantal-updates
** Changed in: indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu Quantal)
Milestone: None = quantal-updates
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu Quantal)
Milestone: None = quantal-updates
** Changed in: bamf
Milestone: None = 0.3.4
While I saw it solved by a session restart yesterday, I can reproduce it
again now. Changing back title.
** Summary changed:
- Global menubar needs unfocus/refocus if opening a document directly from
nautilus (empty otherwise)
+ Global menubar items do not work when opening a document directly
note that was not based on my observation alone, but also on comment 5.
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Global menubar items do not work when
We basically believe this is a race between LO and indicator-appmenu.
Indicator appmenu looks at new windows to see if they have menus on
them, but doesn't have a way to see if they get added later. To fix
we're looking at a way to register for a signal from BAMF to get the
infomraiton when the
- Doing this with a _new_ document works fine here.
- Running libreoffice ~/Documents/somedoc.odt works fine here too.
- Drag'nDropping a document from nautilus to a LibreOffice window works fine
here.
- However, doubleclicking ~/Documenys/somedoc.odt from nautilus exports a
menu just fine, but
hmmm, even the no actions are executed observation is not always
reproducible. Most of the time it works here.
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@Antionio: Could you have a look maybe?
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Global menubar items do not work when opening a document directly from
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = High
** Also affects: unity (Ubuntu Quantal)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
** Also affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu Quantal)
Importance: High
Status: Confirmed
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Assignee: (unassigned) = Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)
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weird... seems fine after a restart!
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I'll check it...
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nautilus with no
indeed, I dont see it after restarting my session.
I see the window needing an unfocus/refocus combo to make the menu appear, but
it does appear pretty reliably now here (not tested too much yet after the
restart).
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Actions seem to work for me, but I have noticed that menu is not
displayed when the file is opened. It requires the window to be
unfocused and focused to get displayed...
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as for the window needing a un- and refocus:
- I dont think LibreOffice does something on these events (Right, Antonio?)
- I see the menu being exported just fine in d-feet, so it is at least allready
on the dbus before the refocus (cant check it in d-feet without unfocusing LO
though)
So the
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