GVim tear-off menus don't work

[Marcus Aurelius]

The GVim text editor, as installed from the software center (I checked with Synaptic and its package is vim-gnome 2:7.3.429-2ubuntu2.1) has a bug with its tear-off menus (occurs on Xfce and KDE, not sure about Unity).

Steps to reproduce:

Open Gvim.
Click on the Edit menu.
Point to the Color scheme menu item (third from the bottom). A submenu will open.
Click on the first item of the submenu (the one that looks like “--------------------”). The menu will become a separate window.
Click on any menu item and notice that the color scheme of the window doesn't change at all. It changes correctly when the menu is used normally (without tearing it off first).

Distro
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Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
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xubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop installed after the main system installation.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: vim-gnome 2:7.3.429-2ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 12 22:04:51 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vim.gnome
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
SourcePackage: vim
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Marcus,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time. Your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.

It would help us a lot if you could test on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once in a terminal:

apport-collect 1036001

and add any additional information that you think relevant. Alternatively, please confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the report. If we do not hear from you the bug report will close itself in approximately two months time.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Marcus Aurelius (marcuscf)]

(After some trouble trying to remember my password...) I ran that command and received this message:

Package vim not installed and no hook available, ignoring

I guess the package name has changed after upgrading (I'm currently on 16.04) or something like that. If this is an essential step, could you please tell me an alternative way?

If that's not essential, I inform that I have just tested GVim again on Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS and the unwanted behavior persists.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thanks for your reply. You probably have vim-gtk installed rather than vim-gnome. Don't worry about updating the logs. I'll revert the change to "Incomplete" and update the tags. Vim version assumed to be 7.4.

[Marcus Aurelius (marcuscf)]

I updated to 18.04.1 LTS and now Vim doesn't have tear-off menus anymore. Well, that's one way of fixing the bug :-)