Audacity missing main menu

[androith]

Binary package hint: audacity

Audacity in 10.10 lacks a File Edit View Effects, etc. main menu. Using keyboard shortcuts (such as <alt>+f) will call the menu up but the actual clickable menubar is completely missing.

Workaround:

Run this in a terminal:

export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0
audacity

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: audacity 1.3.12-7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaCards:
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                       HDA Intel at 0xe5200000 irq 44
  1 [default ]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Headphone Set
                       C-Media USB Headphone Set at usb-0000:00:1d.2-1, full speed
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 14 02:09:15 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: audacity

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Can you show a screenshot or give the link to the youtube video?

[androith (androith)]

If I do ctrl+o it does go to the open dialog, for example.

[androith (androith)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C_V1cY5GI <-- why i figured there should be a main menu, for example

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

I have ctrl+o and other shortcuts (see attached picture).

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Sorry, ignore the previous post.

Can you rename the directory ~/.audacity-data/ and start audacity again. Does it bring the menu bar back?

[androith (androith)]

I am afraid not.

[Muriel de Souza Godoi (murielgodoi)]

I'm facing the same issue here... no menubar on Ubuntu 10.10 final release.

I tryed to perform a "rm -rf .audacity-data" but no success.

Screenshot attached

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[Noel Arzola (noel.arzola)]

Same, alt+f, etc will bring the menus up (so to speak) and allow navigation of the menu but it looks a lil different for me, the menu bar itself does not pop up at all. Screenshot attached

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Can run following commands in the terminal and tell me if they fix the issue?

export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0
audacity

[rotflmao (abujafar-email-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

@Benjamin Drung
it works!

[rotflmao (abujafar-email-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Correction: this fix works, but I still can't see the Analyze menu

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

It's a bug in app-menu.

[Todd McBride (trmcbr)]

I notice it has the main menu when I open the application in the Netbook Unity Desktop but no main menu when I open Audacity in the default Gnome Desktop.

[Andrew (keen101)]

Bug is also here. 10.10. I am also using a netbook edition, but am in the regular gnome desktop with netbook launcher and maximus disabled.

I did notice that when Audacity starts-up, there seems to be an icon in the tray, but then immediately dissapears. Almost as if the tray icon is fighting to be there, but something makes it go away....

[androith (androith)]

Yup,

export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0
audacity

fixes things. For those who want a temporary (obvious :P) solution do

alias audacity="export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 && audacity"

in ~/.bashrc or wherever you put aliases

[DiegoWoitasen (diego-woitasen)]

I have the same issue. The workaround works for me.

[Christian (kurisu666)]

Worked for me also, but sadly only for the Maverick version. The Audacity Karmic Version wont work with this Fix :(

[Peter Hu (hpl20080808)]

It works for me. Thank you!

[Adrian Moya (adrianmoya)]

I also have this problem in 10.10 and the fix worked ok!

[Joey Stanford (joey)]

Work-around worked for me too. Thanks!

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

for folks who want this to work in GNOME, create a custom application launcher.
* right-click on panel --> Add to Panel --> Custom Application Launcher

enter the following:

* Click on the icon to choose Audacity.png
* Type: Application
* Name: Audacity
* Command: bash -c "export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 && audacity"
* Comment: Open Audacity with menus

[jervin (jervin)]

Tommy Trussell, Thanks, I wasn't sure how to create a launcher that would do it all. Thanks for the work-around.

[mitja (mitja-ikirouta)]

Thanks, had the same bug and the work-around worked for me too.

[Brett Alton (brett-alton-deactivatedaccount)]

So without running Tommy's fix[1], this makes Audacity completely unusable when using a mouse. Thus, it is a 'medium' bug is it not?

What needs to be done to have this fixed in Maverick?

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appmenu-gtk/+bug/660314/comments/22

[d0ti5 (d0ti5)]

Works for me to pipe the command. <i>export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 | audacity</i>

[Marc Knight (marcjknight)]

Wow: Beautiful workaround from Tommy Trussell. I too was glaze eyed when you mentioned creating a launcher, but what a fix!!

[Bequia Ubuntu (jose.b)]

If you need to get your menu back without having to make a launcher or use the terminal command every time, just remove appmenu-gtk using synaptic package manager because it somehow clashes with another package. That's the best 'permanent' workaround until the bug in appmenu is fixed.

I found it here ( in the comments at the bottom) :

http://mamchenkov.net/wordpress/2010/05/18/missing-main-menu-bar-in-gnome-applications/