the menus are not shown under unity if appmenu-gtk is uninstalled

[Martijn vdS]

When I click the gnome-system-log icon after searching in the Unity menus, I get an empty window with no logfiles, and no option to open extra logfiles.

This defeats the purpose of a log viewer a little ;)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-system-log 3.2.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-9.16-generic 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 21 20:59:14 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-utils
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-03 (49 days ago)

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Possibly dupe of Bug #841085

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, did you try using the menu? You should have an option to add logs there

[Martijn vdS (martijn)]

There is no menu in the app.

(I have uninstalled the appmenu-* packages because I don't like the "apple" menu. This used to put the menus back inside the apps)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

does it make a difference if you run "unset UBUNTU_MENUPROXY; gnome-system-log"?

[Martijn vdS (martijn)]

No.

Note that it's not in my environment to begin with anyway. And this also seems to affect nautilus, now that I think of it (I thought it might be a gnome3 push: fewer menus).

[Martijn vdS (martijn)]

And eog. And shotwell. Everything I guess.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

oh, uninstall appmenu the way you did it probably stopped working on precise since we use xsettings now and g-s-d set those by checking if unity-panel-service is running

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

I was affected by this on 10.04 -> 12.04 upgrade today. After finding this bug I went to synaptic and installed indicator-appmenu from unity's Recommends which pulled everything necessary in. Not sure why that recommended package was not installed during the upgrade.

[brian hedgecock (bhedgecock)]

lw. with additional alias, and helpers since 2009.