Menu bar is not visible while using a desktop environment other than Unity

[Christian Smith]

Using GNOME Shell, LibreOffice's main menu is not accessible. The menu bar is not drawn in any LibreOffice windows, but there is no global menu to access its features.

Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 1
Libreoffice 1:3.6.1~rc2-1ub
gnome-shell 3.5.91-0ubuntu1

[Dennis Peteranderl (dennis-peteranderl)]

a the moment the native global menu implementation of Libreoffice seems pretty buggy.
A workaround that worked for me was installing the old global menu plugin via "sudo apt-get install lo-menubar".

Good Luck

[Jorge Castro (jorge)]

setting UBUNTU_MENUPROXY="" doesn't seem to work.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Kazade (kazade)]

LibreOffice is currently unusable for me under Gnome Shell in 12.10. Purging appmenu-gtk* and indicator-appmenu doesn't seem to help...

[Dylan McCall (dylanmccall)]

Just editing the bug description to be a little more explicit about the problem. This way other people filing bug reports will be more likely to find this one. Hope you don't mind :)

[Shanekpiper (shanekpiper)]

I removed libreoffice-gtk and it shows the menu, only issue is that its vanilla Libreoffice, which looks a little like something for windows.

[Prada (pradacr)]

1. Go to "Ubuntu Software Centre"
2. Search for Libreoffice
3. Go down to "Add-ons"
4. Check GTK+ libreoffice-gtk3
5. Go up and install
SOLVED
It now shows the menu and the HUD!!!
I solved it on a freshly installed Ubuntu 12.10 64bit (which installed Libreoffice 3.6.2.2 bu default)

[Stanislav (stanislav-schmidt)]

This worked for me:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1069736

But of course the problem still has to be solved

[Chodid (philipp-chadid)]

Prada's solution worked for me, thanks!