no menu bar in LibreOffice

[Jarosław Rafa]

In Ubuntu 20.04 with GNOME Flashback session, the top menu bar (File, View etc.) is not present in LibreOffice applications (in regular GNOME Shell, the menu is present OK). There seems to be no way to make the menu appear, except of uninstalling libreoffice-gtk3 package, but then all styling from the GNOME theme is lost and LibreOffice has the "raw" X toolkit look.

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

Does installing `bamfdaemon` fixes problem?

[Jarosław Rafa (raj001)]

Kind of - that puts the application menu on the GNOME top panel, and not where it should be, in application window under the title bar (see screenshot: http://rafa.eu.org/share/public/bamfdaemon2.png ). However, it's acceptable as workaround until the bug is properly fixed.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

So you have indicator-applet-appmenu present in your panel.

Hold Alt key, right-click on the menubar in the panel, select “Remove From Panel” (Usuń z panelu).

Then the menu should be back in the application. If it’s not, then restarting the application may help.

[Jarosław Rafa (raj001)]

That actually helped! Thank you!

So now the issue is whether the indicator-appmenu applet is present in panel by default (in that case it's actually a bug, it shouldn't be there) or I accidentally put it there when I was reconfiguring the panel...
However, I have no fresh installation to check it...

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

You have at some point added it. Appmenu applet has never been on panel by default. The only bug here is that `indicator-appmenu` should depend on bamfdaemon. If you don't need/want appmenu you can remove indicator-appmenu and bamfdaemon.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

I am reassigning this bug to indicator-appmenu to track missing dependency on bamfdaemon.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-appmenu - 15.02.0+20.10.20200617.2-0ubuntu1

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indicator-appmenu (15.02.0+20.10.20200617.2-0ubuntu1) groovy; urgency=medium

  [ Dmitry Shachnev ]
  * Depend on bamfdaemon, it is needed to fetch windows paths. (LP:
    #1883423)

  [ Khurshid Alam ]
  * Fix deprecation warnings; do not track menus for desktop windows.
    (LP: #1827411)

 -- Dmitry Shachnev <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:11:51 +0000

[The Impaler (theimpaler)]

This is a blocker for Ubuntu 20.04.

Today it's October 1st 2020, but this issue still persists. I updated/upgraded my Ubuntu 20.04 to the latests patches and I can't still see any meny in Libre Office. I have installed both Libre Office (6.x by default, and 7.x using snap) and none shows any menu at all.

I also removed all the panel applets except for the "Main menu" one, but still doesn't work. This is a serious bug. Please let me know how to help to fix this.

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

Did you install `bamfdaemon`? You most likely have empty appmenu applet! Show output of `dconf dump /org/gnome/gnome-panel/layout/`.

[The Impaler (theimpaler)]

I installed bamfdaemon and I ended up removing all applets and all panels, and then recreating the whole screen configuration. This solution works.

Thank you very much.

Nevertheless, I hope in the future there's a simpler solution. I [personally] think this workaround is too technical for most users.

Thank you, again.