gvim loses menu with Unity interface

[Neil Wilson]

Binary package hint: vim

There is no menu bar for gvim when using the Unity interface.

The error is:

** (gvim:8022): WARNING **: Unable to register window with path '/com/canonical/menu/4E00024': Timeout was reached

Sometimes the menu returns to the window and other times the menu never reappears.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: vim-gnome 2:7.3.035+hg~8fdc12103333-1ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 11 15:22:19 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vim
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-06 (5 days ago)

[kitofr (kitofr)]

+1

[Chris Lasher (chris.lasher)]

Niall Murphy marked Bug #771810 as a duplicate of this one, however, it should be the other way around, since James Hunt filed Bug #771810 more than a month before this one, and it contains more information than this. Regardless, both bug reports are indeed for the same issue.

[Andrew McCarthy (andrewmccarthy)]

This also looks a lot like bug #776499, another bug about missing menus with several duplicate bugs. Should they be merged?

[Adrian Wilkins (adrian-wilkins)]

This only occurs when you start gvim from a terminal. If you start gvim from the Unity interface, or from Nautilus, the menu appears correctly.

As stated elsewhere, if you start gvim in the foreground, this doesn't happen either.

Presume that what is happening is that the unity menu is attempting to bind to the initially started process, but instead should be binding to the process that gvim forks when you run it from the terminal.