Dear Matt, > I had a similar problem with zeal. See teh warning at > https://zealdocs.org/download.html: > "Attention non-Unity users! Due to a bug in appmenu-qt5 package Zeal > main menu might be missing on desktop environments other than Unity. A > simple solution is to remove appmenu-qt5 package from your system. " > Hope that helps
indeed, removing the package: appmenu-qt5 (0.3.0+14.04.20140415-0ubuntu1) fixes the problem (on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS). Great! Georg PS: simple test case which reproduces the problem: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-mainwindows-application-example.html > > 2015-11-13 14:33 GMT+01:00 Georg Ritter <g.rit...@herts.ac.uk>: >> Hi everybody, >> >> I was wondering, before investigating further, if the following is a >> known issue: >> >> Some applications built using qt5 do not initialize the menu bar at the >> top of the window (the one with menu entries "File", "Edit", etc.) when >> they are opened in i3 (they do in other wm-s). Everything else such as >> docking tools, app-child windows, etc. show up correctly. >> >> This is i3-wm version 4.7.2-1 on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS. >> >> It is unclear to me if this is a qt5 or i3 problem, so I ask here first, >> as is seems likely somebody has seen this before. >> >> Georg