UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

[ehud.kap...@gmail.com]

I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its 
appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as 
VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility.  The bug has been known 
for almost a year.  Does anyone have a way of getting around it, short 
of using gnome instead of Unity?
Thanks,
EK
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