Unity does not display application menus, side bar not showing running apps

[Juan Salamanca]

Since I upgraded yesterday, I cannot see the application menu in the unity top bar, and the side bar is not showing the running application (arrows). It seems that unity is completely detached from the running apps. I attach screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity 6.4.0-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Fri Sep 21 08:03:12 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-07 (13 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Edward Donovan (edward.donovan)]

Juan, Unity 6.6 arrived in quantal-proposed yesterday. When you get a chance to upgrade, is the problem still there with the latest Unity? Thanks.

[Nizar (nizarlethif)]

Was using apt-get upgrade which did not show any packages to upgrade (was having unity 6.6), but the software-updater gui found some packages to upgrade and fixed the issue for me.

[Juan Salamanca (juan-m-salamanca)]

I had the same thing happening to me, and indeed after upgrading using
software-updater, the issue was fixed.

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Nizar <email address hidden> wrote:

> Was using apt-get upgrade which did not show any packages to upgrade
> (was having unity 6.6), but the software-updater gui found some packages
> to upgrade and fixed the issue for me.
>
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> Title:
> Unity does not display application menus, side bar not showing running
> apps
>
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Since I upgraded yesterday, I cannot see the application menu in the
> unity top bar, and the side bar is not showing the running application
> (arrows). It seems that unity is completely detached from the running
> apps. I attach screenshot.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
> Package: unity 6.4.0-0ubuntu6
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
> Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic i686
> ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
> Architecture: i386
> CompizPlugins:
> [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
> Date: Fri Sep 21 08:03:12 2012
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386
> (20100429)
> ProcEnviron:
> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
> TERM=xterm
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
> SourcePackage: unity
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-07 (13 days ago)
>
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