Nevermind, I had set the exported the variable UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 trying to disable the menus following something I had found online. It turns out that was wrong. If you want to disable the global menus you need to unset that variable completely. It is odd that if the appmenu is unistalled and that variable is set to zero that it forces the gnome- terminal menu to show when it is started.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/787465 Title: View->Show MenuBar isn't working in 11.04 and later Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “indicator-applet” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal If you click on the global menus the View->Show MenuBar and (un)check it, it won't work, the menu will stay at the 'global menus panel' or whatever it is. In my opinion this option shouldn't exist now, considering that global menus are the future, and also considering that a global menu has the advantage not to keep its own space on the screen :) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/787465/+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