LibreOffice menus misbehave after using the Equation editor

[Max]

LibreOffice file, edit, view, history, etc, (the menu items on the top bar of Unity)
become completely empty (clicking on them produces an empty menu, no options, can only be dismissed by clicking outside of it) or misbehave (don't show correct options, stop responding, or don't do anything when clicked) after trying to use said menus while using the Equation editor.

Steps to reproduce:
- Open LibreOffice Writer.
- Go to insert->object->Formula
- When the formula editor opens, click "File" to open the File menu.
- Exit from the formula editor by clicking anywhere outside the editor.
- Do a few normal operations such as, resizing the window, maximizing the window, typing some normal text
- Go in and back out of the Equation editor once more.
- None of the LibreOffice menus in the top bar of Unity should be working properly anymore.

Hardware is an Acer Aspire S3, using Ubuntu 12.10, using the latest LibreOffice packages (updated this morning).

I can't take a screenshot of this, since having the menu open makes print screen not work.
It happens reliably every time I use Writer.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: libreoffice-core 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 30 13:40:44 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-21 (9 days ago)

[Roberto González Correa (rob-e-gonzlez)]

Hi, everybody.

Just commenting that this issue is probably related to Bug #1074446

[mohican (mohican)]

Might also be related to bug 1135950

[mohican (mohican)]

I confirm the bug with LibreOffice 4.0.1.2 (from ppa:libreoffice) on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise 64 bits.

Steps to reproduce are even more simple than what is described.

Steps to reproduce :
1 - open a new writer document
2 - write a bit of text and create a new ligne
3 - go to menu Insert > Objet > Formula
4 - Unselect the formula by two clics elsewhere on the text (no need to edit the formula)
5 - go to menu Insert : all menu lignes (or sub-menus) are grayed out except "Image" (this is normal behaviour if the formula was still selected)

How to have the menu again :
1 - save the document
2 - close it
3 - reopen it
(! once this did not work, I had to close and reopen the session)

How to "solve" the problem :
uninstall package libreoffice-gtk (and libreoffice-gnome ?), responsible for integrating libreoffice 4 into the global menu of Unity (libreoffice 4 does use package lo-menubar any more)

This bug is related to THE INTEGRATION OF LIBREOFFICE INTO UNITY'S GLOBAL MENU

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[mohican (mohican)]

in the workaround § the comment should be : (libreoffice 4 does NOT use package lo-menubar any more)
sorry

[Till Sachau (till-sachau)]

This bug might be identical with or related to Bug #1045353 .

[Marc Whitaker (marc-leaddogs)]

I can confirm that removing libreoffice-gtk and libreoffice-gnome solves the problem. Ugly menus, but it works.

13.04 64 bit
AMD E-350 Processor × 2
Gallium 0.4 on AMD PALM

Version 4.0.2.2 (Build ID: 400m0(Build:2))

[Alex Tasin (alextasin)]

the same thing happens opening the print preview

13.04 64 bit

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

Cant reproduce on 13.10, Print Preview works too, assuming to be fixed by upstream commit 26d092b3635680248f8b176564409e6c0c24bfbf.

[Martijn Evers (mevers)]

With a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) - 64amd today. I got the following issue:

1. Open new Writer document.
2. Insert > Object > Formula...
3. Enter 1+1, click on the document (not the formula) to close the editor.
4. Click again to enter the mode in which you can enter text on the document.
5. Repeat step 2.

Expected:
"Formula..." menu enabled. Ready to insert a new formula on the document.

Actual:
"Formula..." menu disabled (greyed out).

Workaround:
After step 5 click the document to close the menu. Hit enter to start on a new line. Repeat step 2. Now I get what I expect.

I use the HUD which does not show the insert formula command when the menu is disabled. As Till Sachau suspected, this could be related to Bug #1045353

LibreOffice:
Version: 4.1.3.2
Build ID: 410m0(Build:2)

[Céline (piotto88)]

I've the same problem. A friend has the same problem too. Please, can you solve it?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. That ticket is quite old and we didn't get recent report of the problem, also it seems to work correctly now, closing. Feel free to reopen if you can still reproduce in more recent versions