On 2 Ago, 12:47, John Little <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it's a Unity thing. (I use KDE myself.) See > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/6784/is-it-possible-to-make-indicator-... > > for some workarounds. For example, if I type in a terminal > > UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= gvim > > (note the exact placement of the space) gvim starts with the menu pop up menu > to toggle it). Than you. This solved the problem. In fact, i had previously tried to see whether the menu was behaving as 'standard' programmes (Firefox and so on), but I could not see the menu in the usual Unity way. Since I usually start Gvim from the terminal, being a middle-aged user who still finds a terminal his normal environment, I adopted the system you suggest, and I did a minimal script, called it menuvim, put in the /home/mynameasuser/bin directory, so it wont'g go in an update, and made it executable:
#! /bin/bash export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 gvim $1 $2 $3 $4 variables enough for any use! No problem with vimlatex, by the way (in that case, menus are essential). > My brief experience with Unity today has not encouraged me to try it > further. I find it very like the early days of KDE 4; lots of > controls are missing. Well, I do not dislike it, despite this problem with Gvim. I think it has not yet reached a completely mature development, but I had no crash in a week of use. Previously I used 'standard' Gnome. Anyway you can switch to classical Ubuntu or install kubuntu if you do not like Unity (that's what my daughter, 15 yrs, will probably do, she does not like Unity at all). Many thanks again! guido (Genoa, Italy) -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
