Menubar appears in first gnome-terminal even though it's turned off according to default profile and gnome-terminal internal state

[Alex]

Hi. The first instance of gnome-terminal in oneiric always starts with
a menu bar, even though "Show menubar by default in new terminals" is
unchecked in my default profile. In the initial menubar, View->Show
Menubar is unchecked even though the menubar is shown. Toggling this
causes the menubar to remain, but causes a check to appear against
View->Show Menubar. Toggling again causes the menubar to disappear.
Any gnome-terminal windows created after that appear without the
menubar.

I checked a bunch of menubar-related bugs, namely <a
href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/728040">#728040</a>,
<a
href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/868152">#868152</a>,
<a
href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/663030">#663030</a>,
and <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/666926">#666926</a>,
They may be related, but none of them seem to describe this initial
conflict between the appearance of the menubar and the inactive menubar
state as represented by the configuration UI.

lap% lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
lap% apt-cache policy gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://mirrors.rit.edu/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
lap%

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Possibly dupe of Bug #787465

[Alex (throwaway)]

I'm running Classic Gnome. No global menus, if I understand the term correctly. (That means menus disconnected from the application's primary window, like in OSX, right?)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[piti (piti-pablo)]

I'm using awesome TM, and get the same behavior with the menubar, each new terminal I open get it's menubar shown, while the 'show menubar' option is unchecked.
I have to check then uncheck it to get it disappear.

[Daniel Turing (mail-danielturing)]

Same here, using notion (another alternative window manager). If i uncheck "Show menubar by default in new terminals", new terminals indeed start with the menubar hidden, but after maybe half a second the menu bar will be added. "Show Menubar" is unticked in both the right-click menu and the view menu.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #889513, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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