vmware workstation menus do not shows

[Sergey Klimov]

Binary package hint: indicator-appmenu

vmware workstation (last version). Menu do not shows.
I know that vmware workstation is proprietary third-party application, but it is regular GTK-based application, so, i think, appmenu must work with it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: indicator-appmenu 0.0.11-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.32-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 21 06:08:37 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100803.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ru_UA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-appmenu

[Boudhayan Gupta (baloneygeek)]

This is another "Me too" comment.

The only bit of info I can provide is that both the VMware Player as well as VMWare Workstation menu bar disappears, but the menu does not appear in the Appmenu Area.

Perhaps a quick fix would be do blacklist VMware, until a more permanent solution can be found, or at least keep the menu bar visible in VMware somehow.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

To test that under Natty, you need to use the -k option (--no-kiosk-warning).

Using:

UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= vmplayer -k

one can see the menus that are absent of the global menubar.

It sounds like yet another example of dynamic menus causing appmenu-gtk some trouble when trying to convert items on the fly into dbusmenu properties.

[Anthony Hook (anthonyhook)]

I can confirm yet on 10.10, VMware Workstation 7.1.3 build-324285.

I do see the application indicator in the menu, but clicking (right or left) doesn't give any sort of menu with it.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you try if that's still an issue in the current natty version? Some issues have been fixed recently which could make this one work as well

[Kalle Valo (kvalo)]

See bug #705049 about blacklisting vmplayer.