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
