Menubar always shown by default (although deactivated) (after upgrade)

[Daniel Hahler]

Although I have deactivated the option "Show menubar by default in new terminals" [1], it gets shown for new terminals (and has to be activated and deactivated via the "View" menu to hide it).

1: this option in located in the "Profile Preferences" (in the "Edit" menu)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 30 15:36:35 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-29 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

This appears to be caused by some settings when upgrading from Natty: a virtualbox instance, which was installed from Oneiric (beta) straight, has a properly behaving gnome-terminal.

[Cameron Matheson (cameron-matheson)]

I tried purging my gnome-terminal settings (gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/gnome-terminal) in the hopes that I would then be rid of any problem settings from previous versions, but that didn't make any difference. There are no dconf settings for gnome-terminal, afaik.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I've noticed that toggling the menubar on and off reduces the height of the window (real screen estate and according to $LINES) by one line.

[Sebastian Müller (vevais)]

Same happens to me. Any workaround yet?

[Victor Zamanian (victorz)]

I'm getting this behavior on pristine installations of 11.10 (not upgraded from 11.04), running in gnome-shell. Presumably also in unity3D.

[skh (krauseha)]

On my system (upgrade from natty) this happens in gnome-shell, but not in unity3d.

In gnome-shell it even happens when explicitly specifying --hide-menubar on the command line. So it doesn't look like messed-up settings to me, just that this setting is being ignored.

[Victor Zamanian (victorz)]

skh:
Well, the menu bar doesn't show in Unity3D for me either, but that's because the global menu takes over the menu bar. I see no menu bar in Unity3D even when the settings is set to *show* the menu bar, which in my opinion is a bug in itself (since I think the global menu is a huge bug...). But that's another story. :)

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/873763/comments/1

Derek Monner uninstalls global menus and experiences this bug in Unity3D as well.

[skh (krauseha)]

Victor:
Of course, you're right.

[Ignacy Gawędzki (iazz)]

I recompiled gnome-terminal with debugging symbols and traced it in gdb. It seems it is not directly gnome-terminal's fault, but rather libgtk's or some other libgsomething's, which is now taking over the showing of the menu bar. I noticed that some other applications have ugly issues with their menu bar, like gconf-editor which has it appearing only after a few seconds. This would also partly explain why gnome-terminal's computing of window's dimension are wrong.

[Scott Lindsey (scottl-launchpad)]

Perhaps in addition to "LTS" releases, ubuntu should start tagging some releases as "DNS", where "DNS" stands for "Does Not Suck". Now I think I will go and install 10.04 on my laptop.

[Victor Zamanian (victorz)]

Scott: Every OS sucks. All you can do is aim for "less sucky". ;-)
http://youtu.be/d85p7JZXNy8

[Victor Zamanian (victorz)]

In accordance with Daniel Hahler's findings regarding shrinking window sizes (comment #5), this bug also causes new windows to open with a terminal height of 2 less rows than specified in the profile settings. (Default is 80x24, so gnome-terminal opens with 80x22 in the case where the default settings are used.)

[Dave North (north)]

Same result with a new clean install + gnome3. This does not show up on either arch linux or fedora, so at this point it's unique to ubuntu as far as I can tell.

[Ole Martin Bjørndalen (olemb)]

I think Nautilus may have the same problem.

After the upgrade, Nautilus has sprouted menus when running in the root window.
The menus appear after about a short delay, just as in Gnome Terminal. Could there be a common cause?

I'm running Nautilus under fvwm (nautilus --no-default-window).

I've found one other reference to this problem, but no bug report:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/61105/nautilus-menu-appearing-behind-transparent-gnome-shell-menubar