When using unity, the diplomacy and cities menus are not shown.

[Andreas Kostyrka]

Just wanted to mention that Bug #743265 has regressed in Ubuntu 13.10:

* menus are swallowed by menu bar, but cannot be used there.
* UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= workaround works.

launchpad did not allow me to reopen the bug (or assign a new Ubuntu release that has the bug yet again).

andreas@andilap:~$ dpkg -l freeciv\* | cat
Gewünscht=Unbekannt/Installieren/R=Entfernen/P=Vollständig Löschen/Halten
| Status=Nicht/Installiert/Config/U=Entpackt/halb konFiguriert/
         Halb installiert/Trigger erWartet/Trigger anhängig
|/ Fehler?=(kein)/R=Neuinstallation notwendig (Status, Fehler: GROSS=schlecht)
||/ Name Version Architektur Beschreibung
+++-=========================================-=======================================-============-=======================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
un freeciv <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden)
un freeciv-client <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden)
ii freeciv-client-extras 2.3.4-1 amd64 Civilization turn based strategy game (miscellaneous extras)
ii freeciv-client-gtk 2.3.4-1 amd64 Civilization turn based strategy game (GTK+ client)
ii freeciv-data 2.3.4-1 all Civilization turn based strategy game (game data)
ii freeciv-server 2.3.4-1 amd64 Civilization turn based strategy game (server files)
un freeciv-sound <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden)
ii freeciv-sound-standard 2.3.4-1 all Civilization turn based strategy game (standard sound pack)

[Andreas Kostyrka (andreas-kostyrka)]

freeciv-2.png: diplomacy screen => the buttons are swallowed and cannot be operated. (Pressing them in the menubar gives feedback that a menu wants to show (couple of pixels), but it's like the menu is empty.

[Jacob Nevins (0jacobnk-ulp)]

This is essentially a duplicate of bug #1242937.

Due to changes in Unity's menubar arrangements, there's no longer anything Freeciv can do to work around this.

To resolve this, Freeciv was blacklisted in unity-gtk-module in 14.04 under that bug, but that wasn't backported to 13.10. 13.10 has reached end of life (since this ticket was opened) so I doubt this will ever be fixed there; it'll continue to be necessary to use the UBUNTU_MENUPROXY hack.

Since there's nothing to be done in Freeciv, I'm going to take the liberty of closing this as a duplicate, if I can.