I found this can be changed via dconf, for those of you (like me) who
don't use Gnome or Unity and can't access this hidden menu
$ dconf write /org/gnome/calculator/button-mode 'basic'; gnome-calculator
$ dconf write /org/gnome/calculator/button-mode 'advanced'; gnome-calculator
$ dconf write
Thanks for that detailed explanation Michael.
I'm not sure why the other apps didn't pose any problems without the
indicator-appmenu. But it's all moot now.
The desktops have been upgraded to 14.04. Let's focus on the problems of
the future!
Closing. (If I have the power to do so.)
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So these settings are in the app menu, which gets created in different
places depending on the desktop environment. If the desktop environment
(Unity) claims to support showing app menus, which Unity does, then
Calculator intentionally does not show this menu in its window. In other
desktops,
I have the same problem. I cannot use the global menus because I setup
my X environment to focus the window my mouse goes over. That really
does not work with global menus since I lose those menus as soon as I
move the mouse over another window (although Atl-F10 can help, it's not
easy to type
Did you see the workaround on my site? Using dconf-editor to switch the
mode?
(And hit the this bug affects me to increase its visibility.)
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