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