Libreoffice Impress opens with no menus

[Mike Pasche]

When Impress is opened by clicking a PowerPoint file in the Dash, the application correctly starts with the file open, but there are no menus. Closing and repeating does not help.

Workaround: Open Libreoffice Writer and leave it open. Then repeat (click the PowerPoint file in the Dash) and Impress correctly starts up with its menu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: libreoffice-impress 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 18 10:03:28 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-29 (19 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lem (lem-jjr)]

This bug seems to affect all LibreOffice programs. I can't open an ods file with Calc, or it has no menu. I have to start Calc first, then drag and drop the file in. Once I get Calc with a menu, browsing the menus seems to be quite CPU intensive.

[Lem (lem-jjr)]

A little update... while I actually got a menu to appear, it didn't seem to actually do anything. For example, going to Data -> Sort (in Calc), didn't open the sorting dialogue.

This seems like a pretty grave bug. In the meantime, libreoffice-gtk needs to be removed for LibreOffice to be actually usable.

[Mike Pasche (mike-d-pasche)]

The workaround for #1064962 does not work for this bug. I have tried minimizing and restoring Impress and it never brings back the menus. (The bug may still be a duplicate, but that workaround doesn't make it go away.)