Re: [i3] menu bar missing, qt5 application linux, known issue? SOLVED

[Georg Ritter]

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 :
>> 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

Re: [i3] menu bar missing, qt5 application linux, known issue?

[Matt]

Hi,

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

2015-11-13 14:33 GMT+01:00 Georg Ritter :
> 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

[i3] menu bar missing, qt5 application linux, known issue?

[Georg Ritter]

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