Comment 26 for bug 734325

The kind of problem shown in Irrlicht post happened to me, too; I have been unable to reproduce, so I have not reported it. BTW: there is a way to restart the unity top panel without logout/login?

After a couple of weeks, I have to really restate what I said in #17. Global menu is a nice sapce-saver in my netbook when i have just one maximized window, but it is not intuitive nor useful when i have several opened windows in my desktop --- as often I have. The really ideal world would be "global menu for maximized windows, local otherwise" which I think is the expected, intuitive behavior.

I see that this issue is still marked as invalid, so probably it is not useful to continue to write here, and be prepared to switch to Gnome Shell or KDE for 11.10. As an interim solution, setting APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH=1 environment variable at least put a local menu in every window (see bug #778418).