To help those needing to have a reliable workaround, it is this: If NO Libreoffice documents are currently open, ensure that you open an EXISTING file from the general LibreOffice 'White Window'. Then the menus should be displayed.
This works for me, whereas minimising restoring etc. produce no benefit. In case this is of help tpo those searching for the bug, I think the problem can be distilled thus: Two scenarios - A) If first LO document to be opened already EXISTS, menus will NOT be displayed. Subsequent documents (even of other LibreOffice types) WILL display menus. B) If first document opened is a NEW document, opening further EXISTING documents of the same type will force the first to close (with the offer to save it if file contents have changed) but the menus will then be displayed for all remaining LO documents. NB: Opening an EXISTING document from within the general LO 'White Window' causes menus to be visible in that and subsequent documents. Opening an EXISTING file from within a NEW document (of any type) seems to behave in the same way (with a curiously low importance given to the new document involved). General: Once things have gone wrong, and menus are hidden, etc, the icons already pinned to the Unity Launcher start to show a variety of bizarre results on right-clicking (Calc even showed up as a launcher for a Launchpad version of a browser window...), offering to be locked to the Launcher when they are already etc. With the workaround above, LO is usable. However, Alt STILL fails to bring down the application menus... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1064962 Title: Global menubar items do not work when opening a document directly from nautilus with no LibreOffice instance running Status in BAMF Application Matching Framework: Confirmed Status in The Application Menu: Confirmed Status in “bamf” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “indicator-appmenu” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “bamf” source package in Quantal: Confirmed Status in “indicator-appmenu” source package in Quantal: Confirmed Status in “libreoffice” source package in Quantal: Invalid Bug description: 1) Have no instance of LibreOffice running 2) open a document by double-clicking it in nautilus 3) new window has no menu 4) unfocusing/refocusing (e.g. by pressing F7 to bring up the spelling dialog) makes the menu appear WORKAROUND: minimize and restore the LibreOffice window ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: libreoffice-gtk 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 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Oct 10 11:48:20 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-30 (9 days ago) original description: In writer, none of the menubar items appear to work. Example: * Open new document in Writer * Type some text and highlight it * Try Edit->Cut >> Nothing happens * Try Format->Change chase->UPPERCASE >> Nothing happens! workaround: restart your session after update To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bamf/+bug/1064962/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
