Menus not shown in DrRacket GUI

[Yann Salmon]

When I run drracket, the main window is displayed but its menu titles and Execute/verify buttons are not drawn. They exist and are clickable : clicking in the space where they would appear causes the program to be verified or the menu entries to be displayed. I was able to open the Preferences window this way, but it also has drawing glitches and I was not able to find an option tha would be relevant.

Please note that I am talking about the DrRacket GUI itself, not the GUI of a program that I would have written using the racket language.

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 with XFCE.

I downloaded and compiled DrRacket v5.3 : that version displays the menubar correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: racket 5.1.3+dfsg1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50~ppa1-generic-tuxonice 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic-tuxonice x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 12 16:01:13 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426)
SourcePackage: racket
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-07-01 (102 days ago)

[Erik Ferguson (muraiki)]

I am having the same problem with this package on 12.10 with Unity. But if I use the binary installer from the Racket language website, the program runs without any problems.

[Erik Ferguson (muraiki)]

Oops, I made a mistake -- it turns out that I'm on 12.04! I forgot that I hadn't updated Ubuntu to 12.10 on this computer yet.

I tried this package on a 12.10 machine and it worked fine under Unity.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[nadrimajstor (ipejic)]

Bug has been resolved upstream.
DrRacket version 5.3.4--2013-05-08(-/f) looks ok to me.

Workaround for 12.04:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plt/racket
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install racket

[Sergey Smyshlyaev (sergey-smyshlyaev)]

Thanks, nadrimajstor! Installing from plt/racket repository solved this probelm for me.

[weakish (weakish)]

Some items in menu are missing. For example, in Edit, Keybinding & Mode's submenu disappears. In View, enlarge/decrease text size label does not show (shortcuts do show though).

I am on Ubuntu 14.04.

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-life on April 25, 2019.
Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.

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We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for racket (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]