Main menu bar (Settings, etc) not showing.

[Brian J. Schrader]

Description: Ubuntu 13.04
Release: 13.04
N: Unable to locate package pkgname (I'm using the new Gnome+Ubuntu pkg)
The Main Menu bar (Settings, etc) not showing. I have tried many different types of ways to get access to it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-mahjongg 1:3.8.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-25.37-generic 3.8.13
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 3 09:02:08 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-18 (45 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-mahjongg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Don Estberg (destberg1)]

This bug is also in 14.04. It is not a problem in 12.04 (I just upgraded from there).

[David McKelvie (dmck-interactive)]

This bug still occurs in gnome-mahjongg version 3.22.0.

Tried on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS ( year 2020 ) using standard Ubuntu package.

The bug: One cannot change the board layout because the Mahjongg preferences and the Help buttons are not displayed.

One fix is to edit src/gnome-mahjongg.vala and rebuild
Line 145

        bool shell_shows_menubar;
        Gtk.Settings.get_default ().get ("gtk-shell-shows-menubar", out shell_shows_menubar);

+ shell_shows_menubar = true; /* Force this to let us see the Preferences menu */

        if (!shell_shows_menubar)

It maybe that one can get the same affect by setting the GTK setting
'gtk-shell-shows-menubar in some config file,
e.g. /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, but I do not know what other programs
would be affected.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the current version of Ubuntu.

This is a significant bug in Ubuntu. If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please perform as much as possible of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The menubar was removed in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-mahjongg/-/commit/76d8385e and now there is an popdown button on the top bar

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

On bionic you can also install the snap which doesn't have the issue

$ snap install gnome-mahjongg