No menus at all in all my applications after upgrading to 11.04, Unity 2...

[jiapei100]

Hi, all:

Since my laptop may not be able to support 3D, I have Unity 2 enabled, which works perfect ! ^_^

However, when I launch some of applications, including Filezilla and CodeLite, etc., I'm not able to see all the menus now. Only toolbars can be seen, please refer to the following two pictures:
http://www.visionopen.com/CodeLite_NoMenu.png
http://www.visionopen.com/FileZilla_NoMenus.png

How can I have the menus back? Or, if it is a standard characteristic of Unity, to just "never show the menus, because toolbar is already there" ??

Thank you very much.


Best Regards
Pei

[Krytarik]

In Unity, the app menus are by default included by the top panel, which is indicated in your case by the apps name. But for some reason, which I don't know right now, the menu items themselves are not displayed.

Check here if you can find a related bug report, if not, you may file one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity?field.searchtext=menu&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.has_no_package=

To disable that feature completely or on a per application basis see here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/10481/does-unity-support-disabling-the-global-application-menu

Greetings.

[ingeva]

In Unity, the app menus are by default included by the top panel, which is indicated in your case by the apps name. But for some reason, which I don't know right now, the menu items themselves are not displayed.If I understand the question right, the menu WILL be displayed if you hover over the application name in the top panel. It took some time for me to find out, and I find it very annoying. That's simply not where they belong. Menus for an application should definitely be connected with that application.
Fortunately, Classic Gnome is available, so I find it much better to use that. I think Unity is big (too big icons and not enough room), ugly and too cumbersome for practical use.