When using metacity, nautilus has no menu bar

[msp3k]

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center

$ dpkg -l nautilus metacity gnome-panel
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii gnome-panel 1:3.18.2-1ub amd64 launcher and docking facility for
ii metacity 1:3.18.5-0ub amd64 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii nautilus 1:3.18.4.is. amd64 file manager and graphical shell

3) What you expected to happen

Expected to be able to access the menu bar (File, Edit, View, Go, Bookmarks, Help) at the top of the window (or via some other mechanism/menu/button).

4) What happened instead

No menu is available, either on the window titlebar or via right- or middle-clicking on the window titlebar, or via some other button/menu. See attached screenshot.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

You first need to install "indicator-applet-appmenu" and then add the applet to panel to get/have application menubar.

[msp3k (peek-nimbios)]

I have System Settings > Appearance > Behavior > Show the menus for a
window == In the widnow's title bar

This works for all of the other applications that I've run, but not for
nautilus. Is there no way to get the menu back in nautilus the same as
for the other apps?

Michael

On 08/10/2016 12:40 PM, Khurshid Alam wrote:
> You first need to install "indicator-applet-appmenu" and then add the
> applet to panel to get/have application menubar.
>

[msp3k (peek-nimbios)]

I have done as indicated, but the application menu still does not show
up for Nautilus. It shows up for other applications, but not Nautilus.

Michael

On 08/10/2016 12:40 PM, Khurshid Alam wrote:
> You first need to install "indicator-applet-appmenu" and then add the
> applet to panel to get/have application menubar.
>

[msp3k (peek-nimbios)]

Here are some screenshots taken from a freshly-created user account to demonstrate what I'm talking about.

[msp3k (peek-nimbios)]

Next, I fired up metacity. I created a brand new panel with nothing on it except indicator-applet-appmenu. Here's a screenshot showing the appmenu working just fine for the terminal.

[msp3k (peek-nimbios)]

Next, here is nautilus, again with the application menu set for display in indicator-applet-appmenu.

[msp3k (peek-nimbios)]

And finally, here is nautilus, under metacity, with indicator-applet-appmenu installed and on the panel, but with settings configured to display the menu in the window's title bar.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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