Bug 31537

Summary:	menu bar missing; appears in taskbar
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Pierre Fortin <pfortin>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	KDE maintainers <kde>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:		CVE:
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Attachments:	missing menu bar appears on task bar Okular menu My menu doesn't have that

Description Pierre Fortin 2023-02-10 21:44:20 CET

Description of problem:  For a few days now, I've been trying to figure out why I no longer have a menu bar on some applications: LibreOffice and okular for sure so far.  

I have two screens, with a panel on each.  
Focus follows mouse (mouse precedence).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Operating System: Mageia 9
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.102.0
Qt Version: 5.15.7
Kernel Version: 6.1.10-server-1.mga9 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 20 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Memory: 125.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: XPS 8950


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open okular or LibreOffice (others?)
2. move window to 2nd screen if not already there
3. if there is no menu bar (File, Edit, etc) in the window, it will be in the taskbar. 

If there is a gap between the window and the taskbar, there is no way to access the menu; but if there is no gap, you can move the mouse from the window to the taskbar-based menu bar and access its functions. 

If the window is on the primary screen, it has no menu bar and no way to one since that screen's taskbar is either too full, or something else...

This is VERY awkward.

Comment 1 Pierre Fortin 2023-02-10 21:45:36 CET

Created attachment 13689 [details]
missing menu bar appears on task bar

Here's what it looks like...

Comment 2 Pierre Fortin 2023-02-10 23:07:05 CET

Got this response from Dan on the Discuss ML:
"""
The same thing happened to me once on a Plasma system, and it took me forever
to figure it out. It ended up that the applications were somehow switched to
Macintosh mode, where there's a single menu at the top of the screen instead of
one menu per application window, but the component that was supposed to display
those menus at the top of the screen wasn't started, therefore no menus.

The solution was to open System Settings→Background services and disable
"Application menus daemon". I don't recall if I needed to log out and back in
or not. Okular needed a separate fix; its menus had to be manually re-enabled
by right clicking on its document window and enabling menus.
"""

Disabling "Application menus daemon" solved it for LibreOffice; but I still can't find okular's menubar enabler.

Comment 3 sturmvogel 2023-02-10 23:21:31 CET

Created attachment 13690 [details]
Okular menu

Okular menu

Comment 4 Pierre Fortin 2023-02-11 02:06:02 CET

Created attachment 13691 [details]
My menu doesn't have that

Was hoping the Ctrl+M shown in your screenshot would do it; but nope...

Comment 5 Pierre Fortin 2023-02-11 02:14:56 CET

Argh...  needs left-click not right-click.

Now, I see all my konsole windows are missing the menubar.

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2023-02-11 22:26:04 CET

Assigning to our KDE maintainers.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => kde