This won't change it's because of permissions. Marco Trevisan comment from his blog introducing LIM:
Unfortunately we can't access to the menus of a root application... I it's just a simple matter of permissions... http://blog.3v1n0.net/informatica/linux/ubuntu-introducing-locally- integrated-menus-to-unity-7/#comment-1255930051 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289204 Title: Local Menus don't work when running as root or invoking as root with "gksu" [video demo] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1289204/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs